corpuscularian

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  1. Relating to corpuscles, or to the corpuscular philosophy; corpuscular. I do not expect to see any principles proposed more comprehensive and intelligible than the corpuscularian or mechanical. Boyle.
  2. One who favors or believes in the corpuscular philosophy. He [Newton] seems to have made a greater progress than all the sects of corpuscularians together had done before him. Bp. Berkeley, Siris, § 245.

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  • They still remain, one and all, as elements or simple bodies, though, on the principles of the corpuscularian philosophy, nothing can be more improbable than that they really are such; and no reason has or can be assigned on the grounds of that system, why, in no one instance, the contrary has not been proved. —  Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
  • Nothing would be more easy than, by the ordinary principles of sound logic and common sense, to demonstrate the impossibility and expose the absurdity of the corpuscularian or mechanic system, or than to prove the intenable nature of any intermediate system. —  Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
  • If he do not see the necessity from without, if he have not learned the possibility from within, of interpenetration, of total intussusception, of the existence of all in each as the condition of Nature’s unity and substantiality, and of the latency under the predominance of some one power, wherein subsists her life and its endless variety, as he must be, by habitual slavery to the eye, or its reflex, the passive fancy, under the influences of the corpuscularian philosophy, he has so paralysed his imaginative powers as to be unable — or by that hardness and heart-hardening spirit of contempt, which is sure to result from a perpetual commune with the lifeless, he has so far debased his inward being — as to be unwilling to comprehend the pre-requisite, he must be content, while standing thus at the threshold of philosophy, to receive the results, though he cannot be admitted to the deliberation — in other words, to act upon _rules_ which he is incapable of understanding as LAWS, and to reap the harvest with the sharpened iron for which others have delved for him in the mine. —  Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
 

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