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t. ( its highest, I did it no wrong in taking "homogeneous extended solids" as its specified datum and its only one; so that it constituted a system of monism. J. Martin eau, Materialism (1874), p. 108. 2. Any theory or system which attempts to explain many heterogeneous phenomena by a single principle. The solution offered by Psychophysical Monism , that functional brain-motion and feeling are two aspects of one and the same fact in nature-this solution, when closely examined, turns out to be an altogether dualistic and unthinkable a ertion. E. Montgomery, Mind, IX. 366. 3. In biol., same as monogenesis (c). - Hylozoistic monism. Same as hylozoism. - Idealistic monism, the monism which regards the single principle of the universe as mind or spirit, of which matter is the product. - Materialistic monism, the monism which regards the single principle as matter, of which mind or spirit is the product. monist (mon'ist), n. and a. [ of monism in some one of its forms. The philosophical unitarians or monists reject the testimony of consciousne to the ultimate duality of the sub ject and object in perception, but they arrive at the unity of these in different ways. Some admit the testimony of consciousne to the equipoise of the mental and material phenomena, and do not attempt to reduce either mind to matter, or matter to mind. They reject, however, the evidence of consciousne to their antithesis in existence, and maintain that mind and matter are only phenomenal modifications of the same common substance. This is the doctrine of absolute identity-a doctrine of which the most illustrious representatives among recent philosophers are Schelling, Hegel, and Cousin. Others again deny the evidence of consciousne to the equipoise of subject and object as coördinate and original elements; and, as the balance is inclined in favor of the one relative or the other, two opposite schemes of psychology are determined. If the subject be taken as the original and genetic, and the bishop to one of the subordinate clergy, to require the amendment of some ecclesiastical offense; a monitory letter. Monitions are of two cla es in specie, where the name of the offender is distinctly mentioned, and in genere, where it is not. A bull of Innocent VIII.,... followed by a severe mo nition from Archbishop Morton to the abbot of St. Albans. Hallam, Const. Hist., I. 84, note. =Syn. 1. Admonition, Monition, Reprehension, etc. See admonition. II. xii.