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the cloisters of the Mathurins to the faubourg of 

 St Denis 1 ; and, in respect of our theme of this day, 

 we shall see that even Harvey was embarrassed by 

 certain aspects of it. 



For, to resume, closely allied to the argument 

 concerning universals was that concerning "form and 

 matter." Whether the terms used were "form and 

 matter,' 7 force or energy or " pneuma " and matter, 

 " soul or life " and " body/' " determinative essence^ 

 and determinate subsistence/' " male principle and 

 female element/' " archseus and body," the potter 

 and the clay of the potter ; or whether again they 

 were "type and individual," "cause and effect/' 

 " law and nature/' " becoming and being," or even 

 the "thought and extension" of Descartes, the 

 riddle lay in the contrast of the static and dynamic 

 aspects of things ; in the incessant formation of 

 variable and transitory individuals in the eternal 

 ocean of existence 2 . 



" Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus 

 Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet." 



1 M. Charles Jourdain thus describes the procession of 

 Rector, doctors and disciples of the University of Paris at the 

 beginning of the fourteenth century. At the end of this 

 century its decay began. 



2 For Aristotle the principle of individuation was matter 

 and form (vid. note, p. 33) ; for Averroes it was form ; for 



