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the words sensation and sensibility. We can hardly avoid 

 describing, at least analogically, what must happen in the 

 affection of entelechy in general by words similar to these, 

 just as we have spoken of a primary knowing and willing 

 of entelechy. But, of course, our postulate that an 

 affection of all entelechy by external changes must exist 

 and that this affection relates to specificities of order or 

 combination is more important than mere terminology. 



As in discussing the affection of morphogenetic entelechy 

 we came back to the stimuli of restitution, so here we 

 could analyse again what we called " individualised stimuli ' 

 when we were discussing action. Both times the analysis 

 of the type of affection of the vital " something J: itself 

 constitutes a proof of vitalism and forces us to call this 

 " something " entelechy. 



7. THE CONTRAST BETWEEN AFFECTION IN THE ORGANIC 



AND THE INORGANIC 



To sum up : Entelechy is affected and thus called into 

 activity by changes of any normality governed by it which 

 are due to external causes, and these changes do not affect 

 entelechy as a mere sum of changed singularities but as 

 changes of normality as a whole. 



This point is very important, for, on the other hand, 

 our careful analysis of the relation of entelechy to energetics 

 and mechanics has taught us that the activity of entelechy 

 relates immediately to single inorganic events, though in 

 the service of normality. 



The fundamental contrast between the affection of 

 entelechy from without and any kind of affection in the 



