PART III 

 THE PEOBLEM OF UNIVERSAL TELEOLOGY 



INDIVIDUALITY or teleology as a real ontological category 

 of relation being established, the problem presents itself 

 for discussion,, whether its range of application with 

 regard to Givenness in space or " nature ' may not be 

 wider than the mere biology of the individual organism. 



To restrict the application of individuality in a dogmatic 

 manner to this limited field would be equivalent to saying 

 that natural agents of the entelechian class can only manifest 

 themselves with respect to certain chemical compounds, of 

 the albumen group in particular, and this, of course, would 

 seem to be very strange and inconceivable. 



In order to find out to which domains of nature 

 individuality as a category may relate, at least hypotheti- 

 cally, we shall do best, I believe, to review once more the 

 reasons which actually led us to set up the entelechian 

 natural factors where we did. 



a. RETROSPECT 



We began with certain classes of natural processes 

 which were of the type of specific combinations of qualitative 

 and quantitative chemico-physical singularities in space and 



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