 The most remarkable feature of Fechner’s book is that it is a defense of atomism at all. In Nanna and Zend-Avesta Fechner had expounded the organic vision of the universe so characteristic of romanticism. The support for that organic vision, as set forth by the Naturphilosophen (Schelling, Hegel, and Herbart), had been the dynamic theory of matter, according to which matter consists essentially in living force. If matter consists in force, the Naturphilosophen argued, then there is no fundamental difference in kind between mind and matter, because they are only different degrees of development and organization of force. It was just this view of matter, however, that Fechner had rejected in his Atomlehre. He was very explicit that force presupposes the existence of matter, that trying to analyze matter into these forces was like trying to analyze sounds into the intervals between them (Atom: 112, 113). But this repudiation of dynamicism inevitably poses the question: Did Fechner’s atomism not undermine his  organicism?[12] 