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Enteleehy is an elemental factor of nature conceived to explain a certain 

 class of natural phenomena. (P. 206.) 



You may say if you like that enteleehy, when turning a mass particle, 

 acts upon it at right angles to its path— this kind of action requiring 

 no energy, hut even thus there would be only a pseudo-obedience to the 

 laws of real mechanics, since enteleehy must be regarded here as non- 

 energetical and as interfering with inertia at the same time. (P. 223.) 

 Enteleehy is affected by the accomplishment of its own performance, in 

 acting as well as in morphogenesis. (P. 228.) 



In order that adaptation may happen, the fundamental state of the 

 organism must be disturbed in its normality; this fact affects or calls 

 forth enteleehy. (P. 229.) 



Enteleehy is affected and thus called into activity by changes of any 

 normality governed by it which are due to external causes and these 

 changes do not affect enteleehy as a mere sum of changed singularities, 

 but as changes of normality as a whole. (P. 232.) 

 Enteleehy is affected by and acts upon spatial causality as if it came 

 out of an ultra-spatial dimension ; it does not act in space, but it acts 

 into space. (P. 235.) 



Enteleehy is an agent acting manifoldly without being itself manifold 

 in space or extensity. Enteleehy then is only an agent that arranges, 

 but not an agent that possesses quantity. (P. 250.) 

 Enteleehy is something different from matter and altogether opposed to 

 the causality of matter. (P. 255.) 



May not enteleehy be called a " substance " in the most general philo- 

 sophical sense of the word, that is, in the sense of a something irredu- 

 cible, which remains the always unchangeable bearer of its changeable 

 qualities. (P. 256.) 



Enteleehy has the power of preserving its specific intensive manifold- 

 ness in spite of being divided into two or more parts. (P. 257.) 

 Enteleehy therefore can not possess a "seat." (P. 258.) 

 At present the question whether enteleehy is a " substance " must remain 

 as open as the previous question about the relation of enteleehy to 

 causality. . . . Enteleehy was a kind of " quasi » causality, and now 

 may be said to be an enduring " quasi-substance." (P. 260.) 

 Entelechies, though transcending the realm of the Imaginable, do not by 

 reason of their logical character as such form constituents of meta- 

 physics in the sense of something absolute and independent of a sub- 

 ject. (P. 320.) 



Enteleehy is alien not only to matter but also to its own material 



purposes. (P. 336.) 



Mir wird vor alle Dem so dumm 



Als ging mir ein Miihlrad im Kopf herum! 



