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entelechy, and as the " definitio realis " of " differentiation ' : 

 at the same time. " Differentiation," in fact, passes the 

 limits of inorganic events. 



It is worth while to illustrate the differences between 

 the diversity of elemental composition and the diversity of 

 distribution in a still more concrete though schematic form. 

 A harinonious-equipotential system may consist of n cells, 

 each of them composed of m different (chemical) constituents. 

 In each cell every constituent is able to react with every other; 

 in other words, there exist chemical potentials or affinities 

 between each possible pair of constituents in each cell. So 

 far the given " diversity of elemental composition," kept in 

 mere potentiality by the suspending action of entelechy. 

 But now entelechy proceeds to actuality, and it does so 

 by enlarging the amount of " diversity of distribution " in 

 the system in question : actually, out of all the possible 

 reactions in each cell, only one is allowed to happen, and 

 this actual reaction which determines the " prospective 

 value " of the cell, is different in each. The specificity in 

 each cell is regulatorily determined by entelechy, and thus 

 entelechy transforms a " homogeneous " distribution of given 

 different elements and given possible reactions into a " hetero- 

 geneous " distribution of effects. 



The Role of Entelechy in Acting 



Now that the study of entelechies which govern typical 

 order in space has given us such an important result, let us 

 glance at some features connected with action, i.e. with the 

 work of entelechies related to typical order in time. 



There is a workman and there is a heap of bricks, and 



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