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through the brain and the muscular system affects a 

 certain external material also. But this difference does 

 not touch the chief point in question. 



7. THE ROLE OF ENTELECHY DOES NOT CONTRADICT THE 

 PRINCIPLES OF THE INORGANIC AS THEY ARE, BUT AS 

 THEY MIGHT BE FORMULATED 



At the first glance our analytical results seem to 

 contradict the second and also, of course, the empirical 

 third principle of energetics. For, if diversities can be 

 created without pre-existing diversities, the absolute 

 amount of diversity in a given system is not only not 

 diminished, as the third principle postulates, but is most 

 decidedly increased, and this without any external event. 

 And yet there is no contradiction to the usual second 

 and third energetical principle, but something quite 

 different, for we have not admitted any augmentation of 

 the number of elemental diversities by what we have 

 said, nor have we allowed any increase of diversity with 

 regard to differences of " intensity." We only have stated 

 that an increase of diversity with regard to the distribution 

 of elements has occurred from within, a diversity with 

 regard to tectonics, 1 so to say. But about this point nothing 

 is affirmed ly any of the energetical principles, either 



1 A very good instance of the augmenting of diversity regarding distribu- 

 tion but not elemental composition is offered by the process of printing. 

 Take the compositor and the types as forming our "system" : by the action 

 of printing, which is a real "action" in our analytical sense, new types, 

 of course, are not created in any way, but the types present, which at the 

 beginning showed a fairly simple order of distribution, say in about fifty-two 

 boxes, will at the end show a state of distribution of the highest imaginable 

 complexity. 



