But then another name is required for the scientific object which is the full entity which concerns science, and which I have called the electron.
According to this conception of scientific objects, the rival theories of action at a distance and action by transmission through a medium are both incomplete expressions of the true process of nature.

The stream of events which form the continuous series of situations of the electron is entirely self-determined, both as regards having the intrinsic character of being the series of situations of that electron and as regards the time-systems with which its various members are cogredient, and the flux of their positions in their corresponding durations.

This is the foundation of the denial of action at a distance; namely the progress of the stream of the situations of a scientific object can be determined by an analysis of the stream itself.
On the other hand the ingression of every electron into nature modifies to some extent the character of every event.

Thus the character of the stream of events which we are considering bears marks of the existence of every other electron throughout the universe.

If we like to think of the electrons as being merely what I call their charges, then the charges act at a distance.