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Logic II 39

{Section title: New statement of the distinction of Finality and Efficiency.}

can be traced out from the definition. But the rôle that
vortices really play in the universe, -- no insignificant one,
if all matter is built of them, -- depends the real life of
them, depends upon the idea of them, which simple finds
its opportunity in those circumstances that are set down
enumerated in the definition. Efficient causation is that
kind of causation whereby the parts compose the whole;
final causation is that kind of causation whereby the
whole calls out its parts. Final causation without efficient
causation is helpless: mere calling for parts
will is what a [Hotepoor?], or any many may do; but
they will not come without efficient causation. Efficient
causation without final causation, however, is
worse than helpless, by far; it is mere chaos; and
chaos is not even so much as chaos, without final
causation; it is blank nothing.

The writer of a book can do nothing but set down the