When I work on a thing, my labor stays in it. Then my possession no longer depends on my standing next to it. The form shows it, even when I am far away.

That is why forming is the best way to take possession of something. In it, inside and outside come together. My plan is visible in the thing. And the thing lasts.

Forming means many things:

Making a chair. Tilling a field. Planting and tending fruit trees. Taming, feeding and herding animals. With living things my labor does not stay outside. The living thing takes it into itself. The tended tree grows differently.

Sometimes I form only indirectly. If you build a windmill, you do not form the wind. But you create a form to use the wind. Even someone who spares game instead of wiping it out forms it in his own way.

Summary: In forming, my will stays in the thing for good. That is why it is the most perfect way of taking possession. It reaches from a piece of work to the care of plants and animals.

[zu § 56 Anm.] Taking possession is completed only through consuming, desire – in β) provision – for future use.
Tending, feeding the animals – it*) works over the form – does not remain external – forming here in general, that I do something to it – to it, insofar as it is living, self-standing. – Tending, i.e. not shooting fish, game, to the point of extermination – not catching away the brood of fish. – Taming – producing a habit in them –
Mills; – windmills –
*[above: ] that is, what I do to it