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of the system, as so-called "phases" at the end of the 

 differentiation than there were before it began, there 

 certainly is a greater amount or degree of diversity in the 

 distribution of different single elements at the end than at 

 the beginning, and this greater amount of diversity with 

 regard to distribution is created by the sole agency of the 

 system itself. What about this very striking fact ? 



A mixture of oil and water, which afterwards separates 

 into a layer of oil and a layer of water, shows also a greater 

 degree of diversity or heterogeneity in the distribution of 

 its elements at the end than at the beginning, and such 

 a phenomenon becomes still clearer if three substances 

 are mixed which are of different specific gravity, and will 

 remain individual phases for themselves. But all such 

 events go on under the influence of an external factor, 

 gravitation. Such an external factor that could be 

 responsible for the increase of the amount of diversity in 

 distribution is wanting in the case of the differentiation 

 of harmonious-equipotential systems. 



ft. THE ELEMENTAL ROLE OF ENTELECHY IN CREATING 

 "DIVERSITIES OF DISTRIBUTION" 



The Role of Entelechy in Morphogenesis 



Now we know that an harmonious-equipotential system 

 is endowed with entelechy, and that the function of entelechy 

 is to suspend and to set free, in a regulatory manner, pre- 

 existing potentials, i.e. pre-existing faculties of inorganic 

 interaction. 



What does that imply with regard to the origin of 

 differentiation ? 



