hylozoismn.
/hʌɪləʊˈzəʊɪz(ə)m/ The theory that matter is endowed with life, or that life is merely a property of matter.
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 105 Hylozoism..makes all Body, as such, and therefore every smallest Atom of it, to have Life Essentially belonging to it.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 63 The hypothesis of Hylozoism..is the death of all rational physiology, and indeed of all physical science.
1887 R. D. Hicks in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 563/2 To Cleanthes and Chrysippus..there was no real difference between matter and its cause..they have reached the final result of unveiled hylozoism.
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