3 | The Being and the Environment
In the individual nature of every being there are two elements which need to be differentiated clearly, although at the same time it is also important to show as precisely as possible how they are interrelated.
In the first instance this individual nature proceeds or originates from what the being is in itself. In the second instance it proceeds from the sum total of the influences exerted on it by the environment in which it manifests. The first element represents the inward or active side of the being; the second its