Henry More
![Portrait by [[David Loggan]], c. 1679–1692](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Portret_van_Henry_More%2C_RP-P-OB-46.333.jpg)
More rejected Cartesian dualism, arguing that spirit, like matter, must be extended in space. He coined the term ''fourth dimension'' and introduced the concept of ''essential spissitude'' to describe the spatial extension of immaterial substance. He also proposed the existence of a Spirit of Nature—an unconscious, incorporeal agent through which God sustained the order of the physical world. His metaphysics grounded his opposition to materialist atheism and emphasised the necessity of immaterial principles in explaining life and motion.
He opposed the Cartesian view that animals were mere machines, asserting instead that they possess immaterial but mortal souls. More regarded animals as part of divine providence and cited their usefulness to humans as evidence of design, while acknowledging the theological difficulty posed by predation and suffering.
His writings, in both Latin and English, spanned metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, and theology, and included poetry and prose. He influenced figures such as Lady Anne Conway, Joseph Glanvill, and John Norris, and was later cited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Helena Blavatsky. Provided by Wikipedia
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