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right to speak of certain constellations in givenness, other 

 than organisms, which are teleological in the sense of a 

 statical harmony of nature. It is true, this harmony is 

 statical, it is a teleology of constellation, of being, not a 

 teleology in becoming as the teleology in organisms is. 

 One state of this statical teleology leads back to an earlier 

 state, which again leads back, and so on, one of these states 

 following from the other mechanically. At least we know 

 absolutely nothing about any real entelechian non-mechanical 

 act in the sphere of the Inorganic. 



S. THE PRIMARY ENTELECHY IN THE UNIVERSE AN 



ETERNAL TASK OF SCIENCE 



But does not this hypothetic statical harmony among 

 certain domains of nature point back to an original primary 

 entelechy that made it just as the artist makes an object of 

 art ? In spite of the possibility of the indefinite regressus 

 in time that we meet here, it seems to me that the mind is 

 forced to assume this primary entelechy in the universe I 

 do not say " of ' the universe as soon as a universal 

 natural harmony of any kind is accepted. This primary 

 entelechy would not have created absolute reality, but would 

 have ordered certain parts of it, and these parts therefore 

 would show a sort of non-contingent constellation whilst all 

 other constellation of the elementalities of the universe 

 would be contingent. 



This is downright " Dualism," the old distinction between 

 v\rj and i/oOs. But how are we to escape dualism when 

 even the categorical system of relations is dualistic through- 

 out? Passive Givenness also shows us causality and 



