Note 50 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM (continued 2)

The problem of the stimulus of a secondary restitution as a whole must not be confused with the very different question, what the single “formative stimuli” concerned in the performance of a certain restitutive act may be. With regard to restitution as a whole these single “formative stimuli” might properly be said to belong to its “internal means”—in the widest sense of the word.