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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICROCOSM , a See also:

term often applied in philosophical and in See also:general literature to See also:man regarded as a " little See also:world " (Gr. wcp6s K60'µos) in opposition to the " macrocosm," See also:great world, in which he lives. From the See also:dawn of speculative thought in See also:Greece the See also:analogy between man and the world has been a See also:common-See also:place, and may be traced from Heraclitus and See also:Empedocles, through See also:Plato, See also:Aristotle, the See also:Stoics, the Schoolmen and the thinkers of the See also:Renaissance down to the See also:present See also:day. Thus See also:Lotze's comprehensive survey of See also:mental and moral See also:science is termed Microcosmos The most systematic expression of the tendency indicated by the term is the monadology of See also:Leibnitz, in which the See also:monad is regarded as containing within its own closed See also:sphere an expression of the universe, the typical created monad being the human soul.

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