The word organism is made from organ. But organ means some types of mechanical instruments. Many dictionaries (Oxford, Ritter, Gehler) teach us the word Organism is not so old as the word life. Kant's comment on the words organ and organisiertes Wesen seems to reveal that he was sensitive to the new vocabulary. C. A. Eschenmayer: Die Philosophie in ihrem Uebergang zur Nichtphilosophie (1803) is a clear-cut picture of philosophical situations of the days. Philosophers of Romantic School supported so called chemitry-centric idea of organism that real basic process of organism can be explained as a chemical process. But Schelling rejected the chemitry-centric idea in his work: Die Methode des akademischen Studiums (1803).
