Summary

The New International Encyclopædia…

Mind and matter, according to this theory, are but forms of composition of the atoms of mind-stuff; only under the most rarely favorable conditions does this composition result in intelligence, as in the higher animals, but at the same time no matter is to be conceived as ‘dead’ matter, since it is built up of elements whose essential character is psychical.
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