3. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTELECHY 

 EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE MANIFOLDNESS 



Entelechy either underlies the origin of an organic body, 

 typically built up of typical elements, or it underlies 

 an action, i.e. a typical combination of typical move- 

 ments. Thus we see : entelechy always results in a mani- 

 foldness of a typical kind, the single elements of which 

 are beside each other in space, or one after the other in 

 time, or both, always in a typical order. Let us call such 

 a manifoldness as is the result of the manifestation of 

 entelechy an extensive manifoldness, and let us not forget 

 to notice that all sorts of engines or machines are also 

 extensive manifoldnesses in this meaning of the word. 



Now we believe we have proved that entelechy, i.e. the 

 foundation of the extensive manifoldnesses just mentioned, 

 whether organisms or machines, is not in its turn an 

 extensive manifoldness of the type of any machine what- 

 ever. In other words, the actual organism, as it offers 

 itself to observation, is certainly a combination of 

 singularities, each of which may be described in terms 

 of physics and chemistry, like a machine, and also all 

 changes in these singularities lead to results which may 



be so described, but the reason of the origin of the 



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