Analysis of components [of a whole] yields knowledge of [individual] components only, and only when it is taken into account, also yielding the whole, and if one observes the relationships connecting the detail with the whole, and if one especially focusses on what properties disappear in the transition from whole into detail. Such properties can never be obtained from an analysis of details except when it is about the most simple summation properties (for instance the total weight, total size, etc. [these being additive properties] ).
The organismic wholeness certainly is, since its introduction, a synthetic and successfully guessed, but often denied or misinterpreted result from the combination of specifically coherent phenomena. This of course does not mean that this natural-philosophical synthesis must correspond to the same material constitutional synthesis. Initially, the synthesis was simply the correction or restoration of a preceding analysis [i.e. a reconstruction], of which one should not of course say that it was "wrong" -- we owe to it almost everything we know of details.