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itself. Entelechy is a diversity or a manifoldness in itself 

 but not in the sense of spatial extensities, therefore it has 

 nothing to do with the amount of spatial causality as such, 

 though it relates to events in space, and therefore it is not 

 measured by energy. In fact, entelechy is affected by and 

 acts upon spatial causality as if it came out of an ultra- 

 spatial dimension ; it does not act in space, it acts into space ; 

 it is not in space, it only has points of manifestation in 

 space. This analogy with some theoretical views that are 

 advocated by so-called spiritualists to explain the facts 

 which are admitted by them to exist is a very good 

 description indeed of what happens in any natural system 

 upon which entelechy is acting. At present it must be 

 enough to lay stress upon the great difference 1 between the 

 two great classes of becoming in nature, both of them, as 

 we know, subject to univocality : the one spatial, extensive, 

 quantitative ; the other non-spatial, intensive, and arranging 

 only ; but both of them realising themselves in spatial 

 events, i.e. in nature. 



The Problem of " Entelechy and Causality " only partly solved 



But, after all, how does entelechy stand to causality ? 

 Is it a special type of causality itself? 



I am sorry to say that the answer to this ultimate 

 problem must once more be put off until considerations of 

 another kind have been weighed. 



1 It is upon this difference as formulated in the text that the very essence 

 of vitalism, of " non-materialism " rests. It matters little how materialism 

 is formulated in detail ; energetics is but a new form of materialism, and is 

 far from being its Ubcrwindung, as Ostwald claims. 



