SUMMARY OF CHAPTER. 2 I I 



process, and not a process in or of thought : (3) with 

 a determinate beginning and end in Time: (4) tend- 

 ing towards its perfection without any suggestion 

 of a reversal : (5) the process proceeds from the 

 potential to the actual, and hence the world possesses 

 more actuality, more real significance and " Being " 

 in the later stages of the process than in the earlier. 

 But as (6) in the order of Time the less perfect pre- 

 cedes the more perfect, that order reverses the true 

 relations of things. Hence (7) the true method of 

 philosophy is necessarily teleological, and explains 

 the lower as the imperfect realization of the higher, 

 and with a reference to the End of the world-process. 

 And lastly (8), the End and meaning of the process 

 must be determined from the historical data, the 

 future must be predicted from the past. 



And it is to this task of determinino; the meaninof 

 of the world-process, by means of formulas which 

 hold good universally of the Evolution of things, 

 that we must next devote our attention. 



