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PANPSYCHISM (Gr. 7rav, all; ,writ, soul)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 681 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PANPSYCHISM (Gr. 7rav, all; ,See also:writ, soul)  , a philosophical See also:term applied to any theory of nature which recognizes the existence of a psychical See also:element throughout the See also:objective See also:world . In such theories not only animals and See also:plants but even the smallest particles of See also:matter are regarded as having some rudimentary See also:kind of sensation or " soul," which plays the same See also:part in relation to their objective activities or modifications as the soul does in the See also:case of human beings . Such theories are the See also:modern scientific or semi-scientific counterparts of the See also:primitive See also:animism of See also:savage races, and may be compared with the See also:hylozoism of the See also:Greek physicists . In modern times the See also:chief exponents of panpsychist views are See also:Thomas . See also:Carlyle, See also:Fechner and See also:Paulsen: a similar See also:idea See also:lay at the See also:root of the See also:physical theories of the See also:Stoics .

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