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has created this basis, and so statical teleology has its source in dynam- 

 ical teleology. 



We now see the full meaning of the statement that entelechy is an 

 "intensive manif oldness " realizing itself extensively; in other words, 

 we know what it means to say that a body in nature is a living organ- 

 ism; we have given a full descriptive definition of this concept. (Pp. 

 150-151.) 



Any single spatial occurrence induced or modified by entelechy has its 

 previous single correlate in a certain single feature of entelechy as far 

 as it is an intensive manif oldness. (P. 154.) 



Entelechy may be aroused to manifestation by a change in bodily 

 nature, such as is effected by fertilization, or by some operation, or by 

 some motor stimulus ; on the other hand, entelechy may on its own part 

 lead to changes in bodily nature. (P. 156.) 



It is the essence of an entelechy to manifest itself in an extensive mani- 

 foldness : all the details of this extensive manifoldness depend upon the 

 intensive manifoldness of the entelechy, but not upon different spatial 

 "causes." (P. 157.) 



Entelechy lacks all the characteristics of quantity; entelechy is order 

 of relation and absolutely nothing else; all the quantities concerned in 

 its manifestations in every case being due to means which are used by 

 entelechy, or to conditions which can not be avoided. (P. 169.) 

 Entelechy, as far as we know, at least, is limited in its acting by many 

 specificities of inorganic nature, among which are the specificities 

 included under the phrase " chemical element." (P. 179.) 

 Entelechy is also unable to cause reactions between chemical compounds 



entelechy is altogether unable to create differences of intensity of any 

 kind. 



But entelechy is able, so far as we know from the facts concerned in 

 restitution and adaptation, to suspend for as long a period as it wants 

 any one of all the reactions which are possible with such compounds as 

 are present, and which would happen without entelechy. (P. 180.) 

 Entelechy though not capable of enlarging the amount of diversity of 

 composition of a given system, is capable of augmenting its diversity 

 of distribution in a regulatory manner, and it does so by transforming 

 a system of equally distributed potentialities into a system of actualities 

 which are unequally distributed. (P. 192.) 



Entelechy ... is a factor in nature which acts teleologically. It is an 

 intensive manifoldness and on account of its inherent diversities it is 

 able to augment the amount of diversity in the inorganic world as far 

 as distribution is concerned. It acts by suspending and setting free 

 reactions based upon potential differences regulatively. There is noth- 

 ing like it in inorganic nature. (P. 205.) 



