:I shall class the whole system of nature, as it has been called, and the matter of which it is composed, under the three distinct heads, of common, of living, and of dead matter.
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Schulz's dying father, a bookkeeper who ran a dry-goods shop, was, in Ficowski's view, at the center of his later mythology, the father who, in the story " Treatise on Tailors'Dummies, " declares : " There is no dead matter.
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The race had been won, the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures instead of dead matter created a bottomless wound in the living conscience of the race.
34.
The concept of "'spiritual death "'has varying meanings in various uses and contexts . " Spiritually dead " person may mean someone who is not spiritual ( materialist, atheist )-one, who identifies himself with dead matter, though he is a living conscious being.
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The ur-fable about life created from dead matter is the 16th century tale of the Golem, in which Rabbi Loew of Prague animates a clay statue by placing in its mouth a piece of paper with the Hebrew name of God written on it.
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:SECONDLY, By dead matter, I confine myself to the exuvi?of animals, and of vegetables; as well as to the whole substance of which these beings are composed, after the actions of life are at an end, and the state which is known by the appellation of death.
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Conceptually, the artist still moves in the dark borderland between life and death, but her subjects, always painted against a solid pitch black background, have been refined, given a stronger focus and a minimalist character, along with a sense of inherent mystery and uncertainty about whether the depicted subject is in fact alive or dead matter.
