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Conclusions 



Thus we may finally say that entelechies and psychoids 

 are as truly as are potentials and constants they all 

 are not immediately, but only in an enlarged meaning 

 of the word. They all are as products of the intellectual 

 elaboration of Givenness : all of them, and morality too, are 

 parts of one system, which some day may be revealed to 

 humanity in its completeness, and may then receive its 

 metaphysical interpretation. 1 Nature is one, whether it be 

 merely " natura naturata " or also " natura naturans," to 

 speak in the terminology of the scholastics. And Life is 

 " understood ' by the concept of entelechy just as well 

 as is inorganic nature by the concepts of energy, force, 

 mass, etc. There is no need of further " explanation." 



In a certain sense we may say that all conceptual 

 constituents of nature are created in order to understand 

 logically the singularities of Givenness as being subsumed 

 to generalities : in this sense also there is no difference 

 between the natural agents which only " relate to ' and 

 those which " are in " space. 



1 It seems to me that many modern philosophers, exaggerating certain 

 mistakes of Kant, tend to subdivide philosophy, that is "knowing," 

 into a number of branches, entirely lacking in connexion. Psychology and 

 logic, logic and ethics, nature and the "intelligible world," science and 

 history, are regarded as being respectively quite apart. It seems to me 

 that nothing can be farther from the truth than this. Experience is one, 

 and Givenness is one, and philosophy as the understanding of Givenness by 

 ' experience " must be one also, whether the different branches of " experience " 

 follow their separate methodological path for a while or not. But this 

 is not the place for a system of philosophy. The reader will note, I hope, 

 from various remarks, that we regard as very nearly related psychology 

 and epistemology and logic, science and history, nature and morality. 



