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Sarah Hutton’s revised edition of this thinker’s letters restores “Tracts” that had been cut by Marjorie Hope Nicolson. This thinker’s use of a mentor’s term, “discerpible,” suggests that Descartes was not the target of a book that says a carpenter does “not give Being to the Wood.” Francis Mercury van Helmont introduced this thinker to both kabbalah and Quakerism. This thinker described a “third species” that God uses as (15[1])an “Instrument” to be nearer to Nature; that concept analogous to a contemporary’s (*) “plastic nature” was termed “Middle Being” by this thinker. This thinker described creation as a single substance composed of infinite “spirit particles.” (10[2]-5[1])The Cambridge Platonist (10[1])Henry More tutored this 17th-century philosopher whose “vitalist” ideas informed Leibniz’s concept (10[1])of monads. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this woman who wrote (-5[1])The Principles (-5[1])of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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