It is a progress from the potential to the actual, from the implicit to the explicit. The End of Education - Page 10 by Daniel Edward Phillips - 1894 - 22 pages Full view - About this book
...a development, and occurring therefore in time, the process has a beginning, a middle, and an end ; it is a progress from the potential to the actual,...become in developed actuality : but only in potency. At the outset, man is a spiritual being only per se, or in kind, and of course perfect in his kind...
It is a progress from the potential to the actual, from the implicit to the explicit. 