POWELL] TECHNOLOGY XXXIX 



In tlie production of entelic forms many ancillary forms are 

 produced. These, perhaps, are so apparent that they need no 

 further illustration; but the forms which are produced l)y man 

 through industrial processes that serve the entelic purpose of 

 welfare are innumerable, and when we distinguish them it 

 becomes, necessary for us to group these industries under one 

 term in order that they niay properly be distinguished from the 

 industries of substantiation and from others which we have yet 

 to consider. I shall therefore call them the industries of con- 

 struction, as that term seems best to convey the concept. In 

 late years there has grown up in science the use of a term 

 which cleai-ly sets forth the nature of the products of construc- 

 tion as the term is here used. This is artifact; the products 

 of construction are artifacts. Construction, therefore, is the 

 industry of producing artifacts, just as substantiation is the 

 industry of producing substances. As substantiation is the art 

 of producing sul:)stances from air, water, rock, plant, and 

 animal, so construction is the art of producing useful artifacts 

 from air, water, rock, plant, and animal. 



Form and kind are concomitant. There can lie no kind 

 without form, and there can be no form without kind, and the 

 distinction which we here make is but a distinction in consid- 

 eration which classifies the industry. The world is concrete; 

 but man's n;ethod of looking upon it is often abstract, and so 

 his knowledge is ultimately built up into concepts of concrete 

 things, which are first considered as abstract things when con- 

 cepts of abstract things are utilized. All properties and quali- 

 ties are abstract, but they inhere in concrete things. Con- 

 crete bodies and their abstracts as properties and qualities 

 require abstract concepts for their cognition. Again must 

 we recall the demonstrations of the pentalogic essentials of 

 every particle of matter incorporated into the bodies of the 

 universe. That there are five and only five of these essen- 

 tials is the ultimate purpose of this discussion, and the ultimate 

 demonstration must remain in view if we are to understand 

 the nature of the argument. 



