2. ENTELECHY AND THE " PRINCIPLE OF BECOMING ' 



The study of the second principle of energetics is to be 

 our next problem. It will bring us to the intimate relation 

 between the non-energetical entelechy and the energetical 

 factors of the Inorganic. 



a. THE ' SECOND ' PRINCIPLE OF ENERGETICS 



It has often been said that the " first " principle of 

 energetics says nothing at all about becoming, as such, but 

 only deals with something connected with becoming. But, 

 as we have seen, there is another most general causal 

 principle easily to be developed by pure reasoning : the 

 principle that there never can be any becoming where no 

 diversities exist. 



It was in the limited field of thermodynamics that a 

 correlate of this general principle was first established. 

 Clausius and Lord Kelvin independently found a short 

 expression for the relations between heat and the work 

 actually done by it ; both of them started from an old but 

 very ingenious analysis of the motive force of the steam- 

 engine, due to the French engineer Sadi Carnot. 



The expression mentioned has assumed very different 

 forms. Lord Kelvin speaks of the " dissipation " of heat, 



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