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226 THE WILL IN NATURE.
bear in mind that here there can be no question of more or
less distant resemblance, we gain the conviction that we have
grasped the fundamental conception of the one unlimited,
therefore indivisible, life which, according to its different
manifestations in various more or less endowed and exer
cised organs, is just as able to make hair grow on the
human body as to combine the most sublime representa
tions. We see that the most violent passion unsatisfied
will may be checked by more or less strong excitement,"
&c. &c. P. 18 :
" The determining element this organic
will without representation, this tendency to preserve the
organism as a unity is induced by outward temperature
to modify its activity now in the same, now in a remoter
organ. Every manifestation of life, however, whether in
health or in disease, is a manifestation of the organic
will : this will determines vegetation : in a healthy condi
tion, in harmony with the unity of the whole ; in an un
healthy one .... it is induced not to will in harmony
with that unity "... .P. 23 :
"
Cold suddenly applied
to the skin suppresses its function (chill) ; cold drinks
check the organic will in the digestive organs and thereby
intensify that of the skin and produce perspiration ; just
so with the diseased organic will: cold checks cutaneous
&c. &c. P. 33 :
eruptions,"
"
Fever is the complete parti
cipation of the whole vital process in a diseased will,
i.e. it
is to the entire vital process what inflammation is to
particular organs the effort of our vitality to form some
thing definite, in order to content the diseased will and
remove the noxious element. We call this process of forma
tion crisis or lysis (turning-point or release). The first per
ception of the pernicious element which causes the diseased
will, affects the individuality just in the same way as a
noxious element apprehended by our senses, before we
have brought to clear representation the entire relation
in which it stands to our individuality and the means of