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history of thought, and especially among physical scientists. Thus the Ionian school of philosophy, which began with Thales, sought for the beginning of all things in various material substances, See also:

WATER

water, See also:

air, See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire (see IONIAN SCHOOL). These substances were regarded as being in some sense alive, and taking some active See also:

PART

part in the development of being. This See also:

PRIMITIVE

primitive hylozoism reappeared in modified forms in See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval and See also:

RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance thought, and in See also:

MODERN

modern times the See also:

DOCTRINE

doctrine of materialistic See also:

MONISM (from Gr. µ6vos, alone)

monism is its representative. Between modern See also:

MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism and hylozoism proper there is, however, the distinction that the ancients, however vaguely, conceived the elemental matter as being in some sense animate if not actually conscious and conative.

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