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forming or recasting them to the realisation of its full 

 capacity. But for the present we may best state the rela- 

 tion of the different factors of the real in more abstract 

 terms. According to our account, then, Reality would be 

 at any given time a system of elements conditioning and 

 conditioned by a principle of organisation leading up to an 

 ultimate harmony, and through this principle everything 

 real would be thus related to the harmony. In the more 

 ultimate sense in which Reality is not in time, but time is 

 in Reality, the whole system of things would consist in the 

 realisation of an organic principle through development, 

 time itself depending on the function of change as neces- 

 sary to development. 



