Dead matter," whatever the phrase may imply, can bear nothing, produce nothing, quicken nothing.
There is no cogent empirical reason for supposing that the laws determining the motions of living bodies are exactly the same as those that apply to dead matter.
A cycle of actions of this sort has marks by which it is broadly distinguished from the motions of dead matter.
This is the kind of movement which may be called "mechanical"; it is evidently of a different kind from either reflex or voluntary movements, and more akin to the movements of dead matter.
I do not see why you should not suppose creations or arrangements of dead matter by the same laws of infinite wisdom, and why our globe should not rise at once a divine work fitted for all the objects of living and intelligent natures.
I will not allow any facts or laws from the action of dead matter to apply to living structures; the blood is a living fluid, and of this we are sure that it does not burn in respiration.
The physical and chemical forces of dead matter are at war with the forces of life, till life overcomes and uses them.
The only escape from that profound melancholy so easily engulfed in sheer insanity, which is the result of submission to "the illusion of dead matter," lies in this tenacious hold upon the concrete identity of the soul.
Thus it becomes manifest that that "illusion of dead matter" which fills the human soul with so profound a melancholy is no more than an everlasting trick of the malice of the abyss.
And the despair which sometimes results from it is a despair which issues from no "dead matter" but from the terrible living depths of the soul itself.
It is to show that what we see in the world of dead matter and of life around us is not a result of the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
A living, developing universe has been set in the place of a Divine Mechanician operating on dead matter.
Reaction or response of a chemical and mechanical type takes place alike in dead matter and in living organisms, but certain stimuli will induce action in an organism which they could not possibly induce in a mineral.
Mrs Besant has greatly perplexed her old friends by professing to repudiate the Materialism she formerly taught, on the score that it gives "dead matter" as the source of life and mind.
Yet men still speak of him as saying that "dead matter" gives rise to life and mind.
The conception of dead matter," he writes, "is a mere abstraction.
There is no transformation of "dead matter" into live plant matter, and then into live animal matter.
Modern Science is rapidly advancing to this position, leaving behind her the old idea of "dead matter.
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