β) Through formation, the determination that something is mine acquires an externality subsisting on its own account, and ceases to be restricted to my presence in this space and at this time, and to the presence of my knowing and willing.

Formation is, in this respect, the mode of taking possession most adequate to the Idea, since it unites the subjective and the objective within itself; it is, moreover, infinitely various according to the qualitative nature of the objects and the diversity of subjective ends. – To this also belongs the formation of the organic, in which what I do to it does not remain something external but is assimilated: the tilling of the soil, the cultivation of plants, the taming, feeding, and tending of animals; further, mediating arrangements for the use of elemental materials or forces, contrived effects of one material upon another, and so forth.