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in interpreting biological facts. It was then 

 shown that we do actually employ the funda 

 mental working conception of living organisms 

 as such, and that with the help of this con 

 ception we can bring order and intelligibi 

 lity into biological investigation, and we are 

 provided with a working hypothesis which 

 is of the utmost practical value in biological 

 work. This was illustrated by reference to 

 the actual course of physiological investiga 

 tion, and contrasted with the scientific 

 impotence resulting from the adoption of 

 the mechanistic theory, which is only capable 

 of presenting the facts in a more partial or 

 abstract manner. It was also pointed out 

 that the ultimate ideal of biology is to bring 

 within the scope of biological conceptions 

 even the phenomena which we at present 

 interpret as inorganic. 



In the fourth lecture the phenomena 

 presented by conscious organisms or persons 

 have been considered. It was shown that the 

 relation of a person to his surrounding world 

 with which he is in contact through per 

 ception and volition is not a mere external 

 relation, since his surrounding world is 



