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circumstances and a given psychoidal entelechy, there ought 

 to be or to happen either A. or B. On the contrary, what is 

 to happen is quite fixed, and a supreme mind, conversant 

 with all the inorganic facts of nature and knowing all the 

 intensive manifoldness of all entelechies and psychoids, in- 

 cluding the individual history of the latter, would be able 

 at once to predict the actions of any psychoid with absolute 

 certainty. Such prediction is just as possible as it would 

 be in pure mechanics, as stated in the fiction of the 

 " Laplacian mind." It is interesting to note that almost 

 all philosophers and theologians who go really into the depth 

 of analysis are unanimous in rejecting ^determination in 

 nature. In Christianity the word " grace " is a short ex- 

 pression indicating the impossibility of indetermination in 

 nature, placing " freedom " in the metaphysical sphere : I am 

 not even free to believe or not to believe, but to be able to 

 believe is a gift of grace. 



For the present we have to follow the course prescribed 

 by a phenomenological philosophy of nature ; there will be 

 another occasion to deal with the problem of " freedom " from 

 a very different point of view. 



We now approach the realm of real " causality," that is, 

 of univocality with regard to changes in space exclusively. 



How does entelechy stand to this concept, now that we 

 have learnt that it does not contradict univocal determina- 

 tion in general ? 



