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of the single constituents of the intensive inanifolclness 

 entelechy are concerned, there is something like a " cause," 

 though an extra-spatial cause. Now the principle " no 

 effect without a cause " remains true : there indeed is some- 

 thing single responsible for this single spatial effect in all 

 spatial manifestations of entelechy, but it is the manifesta- 

 tion of an element of a composite intensive unity. And 

 the converse is also true : every single change in space may 

 be a " cause " and have its " effect " : but this effect will 

 not always be in turn a spatial change. It may also be a 

 sort of affection of a single constituent of entelechy, which 

 then will lead to some kind of manifestation of it. Thus 

 the chain of causes and effects is unbroken but part of it 

 is unspatial. We have proposed to apply the name of 

 finality to those singlenesses in a manifestation of individu- 

 ality that take the -place of causes in the manner described, 

 though they are not " causes " pure and simple. 

 In this way individuality " implies " causality. 



Entelechy Supra-personal 



As entelechy is unspatial, the question " where " entelechy 

 is, is meaningless. Entelechy is the individualising agent, 

 but it would be just the reverse of truth to assume that there 

 are in space as many enteleclu'es as there are individuals, or 

 so many kinds of entelech^s as there are different forms 

 or types of individual entelechian manifestations. 1 This 

 would be wrong, for the simple reason besides many 

 others that in many cases there might be formed two or 



1 If, in spite of this, the word entelecln'es occurs in the text on many 

 occasions, this is only for the sake of terminological simplicity. For instance, 

 the phrase "forces and entelechies " means, strictly speaking, "forces and 

 acts of manifestation of entelechy." 



