...selfpropagating kind which it communicates to its materials though they have it not of themselves ; it organises them, in fact, and this cannot be explained by the mere mechanical faculty of motion. We say of nature and its faculty in organised products far too little if we describe it as an analogon...

...formative power of a self-propagating kind which it communicates to its materials though they have it not themselves; it organizes them, in fact, and this cannot...explained by the mere mechanical faculty of motion." The mechanist is wont to smile at the credulity of men who for so long accepted the notion that the...

...formative power \bi\dende Kraft] of a self-propagating [sich fortpflanzende] kind which it imparts to its materials though they have it not of themselves;...explained by the mere mechanical faculty of motion. (CJ §65, 220-21; AA V, 374) The functioning of mechanisms like the watch — or for that matter the...