panzoism

panzoism
noun /pænˈzoˈĭzˈəm/
: Belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.

He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?


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