If celery seed has any “active principle” it has never been isolated.
By natural power, because they hold that in all natural matter there is an active principle; otherwise they believe that there would be no such thing as natural transformation.
In order for a transformation to be natural, there is no need for an active principle in matter, but only for a passive principle, as stated above.
Therefore it seems that in the very matter supplied by the Blessed Virgin there was an active principle.
First, because it is from nature as from an active principle: thus it is natural for fire to produce heat.
On the other hand, the notion of active principle is consistent with active power.
But it is not a material principle, because in God nothing material exists; and therefore it is, as it were, an active principle, as the begetter is the principle of the one begotten.
Whence it most fittingly belongs to Him to be an active principle, and in no way whatsoever to be passive.
Active principle resides in the mind, external to matter, 657-l.
The decoction of the bark is given as an emetic and cathartic, but very imprudently because there is no means of determining the quantity of active principle, shown by chemical analysis to be a dangerous product.
Duncan claims to have isolated from the bark an active principle which he called mudarin from "mudar," the Indian name of the plant.
It should now be evident at the first glance, it seems to me, that if there is an active principle it must have, in the unknown essence of matter, another source than extension.
When capable of moving this same matter was known by the name of "active principle".
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "active principle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
