But the Schoolmen distinguished two kinds of substantial forms, the one spiritual and the other material.
But the light of the heavenly bodies is a cause of substantial forms of earthly bodies, and also gives to colors their immaterial being, by making them actually visible.
The active qualities in nature act by virtue of substantial forms: and therefore the natural agent not only produces its like according to quality, but according to species.
Now philosophers have troubled themselves exceedingly on the question of the origin of substantial forms.
We can now see why 'substantial forms' were the bêtes noires of the seventeenth-century philosophers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substantial forms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
