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Monism
The doctrine of the oneness of mind and matter, God and the
universe. It ignores all that is supernatural, and the dualism of mind
and matter, God and creation; and, as this is the case, of course,
there can be no opposition between God and the world, as unity cannot
be in opposition to itself. Monism teaches that “all are but parts of
one stupendous whole, whose body nature is, and God the soul;” hence,
whatever is, only conforms to the cosmical laws of the universal ALL.
Haeckel, of Jena, in 1866, revived this theory, and explains it
thus: “Monism (the correlative of Dualism) denotes a unitary
conception, in opposition to a supernatural one. Mind can never exist
without matter, nor matter without mind.” As God is the same
“yesterday, to-day, and for ever,” creation must be the same, or God
would not be unchangeable.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Monism from Infoplease:
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