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equipotential system, and we should not need the psychoid 

 were it not that action is a whole and not a sum. The 

 single steps in the manifestation of entelechy are, as we 

 know, univocally determined, but they are so by their being 

 united in the intensive manifoldness of their realiser : thus 

 they seem to be acausal with regard to real " causes " which 

 are not embraced in this manifoldness, but are single changes 

 in space. In other words, it is the essence of an entelechy 

 to manifest itself in an extensive manifoldness : all the 

 details of this extensive manifoldness depend upon the 

 intensive manifoldness of the entelechy, but not upon 

 different spatial " causes." With regard to morphogenesis 

 we thus may speak of an immediate correlation of parts 

 that is non-causal, as indeed Kadi has done in a somewhat 

 different connexion. There are combinations of single 

 diversities always interchanging with one another, but each 

 singly independent of the other; their common ground is 

 the specific intensive manifoldness of the entelechy that 

 realises them. Thus the problem of the relation between 

 causality and entelechy seems by no means simple, and 

 therefore we shall best approach our subject by a rather 

 lengthy series of analytical considerations. 



First let us analyse a little more deeply the pure con- 

 cept of causality, 1 as understood in inorganic sciences. 



1 A general discussion of "energetics" will be found in my Naturbegriffe 

 und Natururteile, 1904. I fully maintain what is said in that book about 

 energetics itself ; but as to the relation between entelechy and energy the 

 following discussion will be found to differ from that of 1904 not inconsider- 

 ably. I hope that this change of my opinion will be found accompanied by 

 improvement. 



