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This intuitive entelechic junction of engrammata is of a very 

 high order, especially where it concerns our life as individuals and 

 part of the human race. 



Consciousness can, on account of the factor of attention (con- 

 centration) which plays an important part in it, never see more 

 than one point at a time with sufficient intensity. It cannot 

 survey the reality as an active 'many-in-oneness,' but at the 

 best the natural 'laws' which dominate it, which, however, are 

 also only single threads, and just because they are different and 

 separately illuminated parts of the reality offer a resting-point 

 for the attention. 



A law which unites all laws in itself is impossible in our atten- 

 tive spiritual life. The many-in-oneness of our ego in its envi- 

 ronment in completely intuitive or entelechic relation is experi- 

 enced, therefore, but is not beheld in the attentive consciousness. 

 In the often excellent intuitive judgments much more extensive, 

 especially also more heterogeneous, complexes are sometimes 

 elaborated rather without attention (subconsciously) and mostly 

 these do not become conscious till the final conclusion. 



Correlations may also be effected by one single irritation, and 

 manifest themselves in a successive series of imageless instinctive loget- 

 ical actions, just as after the action of fertilization or parthenogenetic 

 irritation of a germ-cell an engrammatic differentiation takes place. 



This instinct, not accompanied by conscious images, but manifest- 

 ing itself in a series of actions, is in some sense an intermediate form 

 between intuition and growth. 



The relation of instinct to physical growth may even be very great, 

 as is shown by the fact that in insects special instinctive series of 

 actions coincide according to special seasons and circumstances with 

 phenomena of growth in those seasons. 



Indeed, we see logetical adaptations in nature, of which it is difficult 

 to say whether they are actions of instinct or growth-phenomena, 

 e.g., in the protrusion of pseudopodia in lower animals. 



On the other hand, we see a vicarious action of growth and of in- 

 stinct. An example of this vicarious action is the way in which stato- 

 liths are obtained. 



Some animals (the lobster) take them from their environment and 

 lay them in the statocyst, in other animals they grow in it. 



Instinct and growth act together and complete each other in such 

 cases, if an animal eats special stuffs instinctively and these change 

 after a series of phenomena of growth into an armor, as in the shell- 



