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son I have made from one of them 7 a series of extracts 

 to serve as illustrative material. The italics are not 

 mine. 



Driesch's Entelechy 

 Entelechy or the psychoid has nothing of a "psychical" nature. 

 (P. 138.) 



We indeed are in a rather desperate condition with regard to the 

 real analysis of the fundamental properties of morplio^eiiet ic. adaptive, 

 and instinctive entelechies: for there must be a something in "them 

 that has an analogy, not to knowing and willing in general, as it 

 may be supposed to exist in the primary faculties of psychoids, but to 

 the willing of specific unexperienced realities, and to knowing the 

 specific means of attaining them. (P. 142.) 



To build up the organism as a combined body of a typical style is 

 the task of entelechy; entelechy means the faculty of achieving a " forma 

 essentialis "; being and becoming are here united in a most remarkable 



sense of Plato. (P. 149.) 



There is first the entelechia morphogenetica, and after that the 

 entelechia psychoidea and the latter may be discriminated as governing 

 instincts and actions separately. Furthermore the different parts of the 



be said to possess their different kinds of entelechy. 



In fact we may speak of an order concerning the rank or dignity of 



or administration. But all entelechies have originated from the pri- 

 mordial one and in this respect may be said to be one altogether. 



Now the primordial entelechy of the egg not only creates derived 

 entelechies, but also builds up all sorts of arrangements of a truly 

 mechanical character; the eye, in a great part of its functioning is 

 nothing but a camera obscura, and the skeleton obeys the laws of inor- 

 ganic statics. Every part of these organic systems has been placed by 



