The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies.
Lamarck did not believe in Bonnet's idea of the "preëxistence of germs.
The Preëxistence of Germs and the Encasement Theory.
I am not inclined to believe it if this preëxistence is taken in a general sense; but in limiting it to individuals in which the unfertilized embryos or germs are formed before generation.
Priestley was influenced by his peculiar views as a Socinian; for he tells us himself that the doctrine of Materialism commended itself to his mind as a sure and effectual means of disproving the preëxistence of Christ.
This doctrine (of the preëxistence of Christ) is the point to which all that I have written tends, it being the capital inference that I make from the doctrine of Materialism.
The doctrine of the preëxistence of human souls was probably set forth by Clement in the Hypotyposes.
They removed the point of departure of the Christological speculation from the historical Christ back into the preëxistence and depreciated the importance of Jesus' life as compared with the incarnation.
By his doctrine of the preëxistence of souls Origen excluded both the creation and traducian hypotheses of the origin of the soul.
In solvents, then, of high dielectric powers, the coëxistence of oppositely charged particles must be more favored than in solvents of low dielectric powers.
There can be no doubt, however, that after the idea of the soul’s preëxistence had been conceived and entertained, it was very generally employed to account for the origin of evil.
How little insight he had into it on any scientific or clearly defined principle, is obvious from the fact, that he took shelter from its difficulties in the wild hypothesis of the preëxistence of souls.
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