R ENTELECHY AND CAUSALITY 



GENERAL INTRODUCTION 



ENTELECHY may be aroused to manifestation by a change in 

 bodily nature, such as is effected by fertilisation or by some 

 operation, or by some motor stimulus ; and, on the other 

 hand, entelechy may on its own part lead to changes in 

 bodily nature. 



All this is very general ; it asserts that entelechy may 

 be related to causality, i.e. to the principle of connexion 

 of changes in spatial nature. But it does not make the 

 smallest assertion about the most important question : " Is 

 entelechy by itself a specific form of causal connexion, or is 

 it not ? ' This question must, however, be answered. 



DIFFICULTIES 



Now let us recollect that not every single event in space 

 resulting from the manifestation of entelechy has its own 

 single external cause. It was precisely on account of the 

 impossibility of this being the case that our concept of 

 entelechy was created. We should not need this concept 

 if there were to be found a single external cause of every 

 single step in the differentiation of an harmonious- 



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