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The Life Force
§9
In the healthy state of the human being the spirit-like life
force (autocracy), as dynamis giving life to the material body
(organism) without limit and keeps all its parts in admirable
harmonic routine of life in feelings and actions, so that our
inhabitant rational spirit can freely make use of this living,
healthy tool for the higher purpose of our existence.
§10
The material organism, considered without life force, is not
capable of any sensation, any action, any preservation (footnote1); only
the immatrial entity (the life principle, the life force), giving
life to the material organism in healthy and ill states, confers
upon it all sensation and effects all its life functions.
footnote1) It is dead and, now solely subjected the the power of the
physical external world, it decays and decomposes again into its
chemical components.
§11
.... this self-acting spirit-like life force (life principle), everywhere
present to its organism,.....
..... this force entity, by itself invisible and only
perceivable by its effects in the organism......
§15
.......While it is true that the organism is materal tool for life, but
without the dynamis, feeling and ordering in an instinct-like
manner, giving life it is just as inconceivalbe as life force
without organism; therefore both constitute a single entity,
although in thinking we split this single unit into two concepts
in order to make it easier to understand.
§34
.........the instinct-like life priciple, not capable of any cogitation
nor any recollection........
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