hylozo1sm

[Gr. hyle =matter; zöē =life, and Eng. -ism.] Philos.: The system according to which matter has a nece ary existence, and is equally nece arily endowed with life. There are two forms: (1) that each atom of matter lives entirely independent of all other atoms; (2) that the whole world is a living being, whose material elements participate in a common life. The first form is the doctrine of Strato of Lampsacus, the second that of the Stoics, who conceived the universe animated by a living principle. Hylozoism reappears in the Alexandrian school, in the teaching of Cardan and Para cels us, and in that of Spinoza, who attributed life to all things though in a different degree. "Omnia, quamvis divers is gradibus, animata tamen sunt." "We cannot expre animistic ideas except in terms which belong to hylozoism." Journal of Science, Jan., 1882, p. 47.