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the constantly occurring changes and transformations 

 are due to a similar final cause the need for each thing 

 to become explicitly that which it already is implicitly, 

 i.e. the whole of reality. It required once more a 

 critical separation of the spheres of validity of the 

 respective conceptions of nature and spirit, such as 

 Kant attempted, before full scope could be given 

 to mechanical interpretation on the one side, and 

 teleology restricted to the domain of spirit only on 

 the other. 



