92 Trans. by Levinsohn. “Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung,” Munich,
1898, No. 166.
93 Bütschli, _op. cit._, p. 200.
94 “The Monist,” 1899, p. 179.
_ 95 Cf._ “Entwicklung der Biologie in 19. Jahrhundert” (“Naturforscher
Versammlung,” 1900), and “Zeit- und Streit-fragen der Biologie,”
1894-7, especially Part II., “Mechanik und Zoologie.”
96 “Die Organismen und ihr Ursprung,” published in “Nord und Süd,”
xviii., p. 201 _seq._—“Die Welt als Tat,” Berlin 1899, since then in
second edition.—“Einleitung in die theoretische Biologie,” 1901.—And
“Der Ursprung des Lebens auf der Erde,” in the “Türmer-Jahrbuch,”
1903.
_ 97 Cf._, the discussion by A. Drews in the “Preuss. Jahrbuch,”
October, 1902, p. 101, a review of Reinke’s “Einleitung in die
theoretische Biologie.”
98 Of all the bad Greek zoology has produced, “Ontogenesis” is probably
the worst. The Becoming of the Being! The word is used in contrast
to Phylogenesis, the becoming of the race or of the species, and it
denotes the development of the individual.
_ 99 Cf._ p. 130. Excellent observations on “purpose.” If two or more
chains of causes meet, we call it “chance;” if they do so constantly
and in a typical manner, we call it “purpose.”
100 “Biolog. Centralbl.,” 1896, p. 363.
101 “Die Lokalisation (= spatial determination) morphogenetischer
Vorgänge, ein Beweis vitalistischen Geschehens,” 1899 (in “Archiv.
f. Entw.-Mechanik,” viii., 1, and separately published), and “Die
organischen Regulationen: Vorbereitungen zu einer Theorie des
Lebens,” Leipzig, 1901. Also “Die ‘Seele’ als elementarer
Natur-factor,” (studies on the movements of organisms), Leipzig,
1903. He gives a general review of his own evolution in the
“Süddeutsche Monatshefte,” January 1904, under the title “Die
Selbständigkeit der Biologie und ihre Probleme.”
102 In the “Biol. Zentralbl.,” June 1903, p. 427, Driesch is criticised
by Moszkowski, who rejects Driesch’s teleological standpoint. But
even this criticism shows us how far the untenability of the
mechanistic position has been recognised. It is based upon a
somewhat vague dynamism, which admits that the physico-chemical and
all other mechanical interpretations have been destructively
criticised by Driesch, and recognises entelechy (“ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸ τέλος
ἔχον”). An entelechy without τέλος!
103 “Vorfragen der Biologie,” 1899. “Die ‘Ueberwindung des Mechanismus’
in der Biologie.” “Biolog. Zentralbl.,” 1901, p. 130.
_ 104 Cf._ Tad. Garbowski, “Morphogenetische Studien,” p. 167. The
illustration here employed of the arc and the “explanation of form
by form” would be a good criticism of many of Albrecht’s statements.
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