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1710 D. Defoe in Rev. No. 119. 6 474 They would denude us of the beautiful Garment of Liberty, and prostitute the Honour of the Nation to the Mechanicism of Slavery!

1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 187/2 The mechanicism of the construction, if we may so express ourselves, the skeleton, or frame-work of the structure, and the processes of the author in arriving at his results, are too frequently obtruded upon the current of the narrative.

1914 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 11 301 Formal logic is a mechanicism for economizing the elements of the intuitional series.

1867 Michigan Univ. Mag 1 86 Neither mechanicism which places the cause of all disease in the primary disturbance of mechanical conditions and forces, or chemicism, which places such disturbance in the chemical relation of particles..can contain the exclusive truth.

1882 Mind 7 248 Teleology was, in some respects, a falling-off from the rigid mechanicism first taught by the prae-Socratic schools.

1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 519 The doctrine became, under the form of hylozoism, pure materialism and mechanicism.

1962 W. Stark Fund. Forms of Social Thought ii. xii. 176 A fresh high-water mark of mechanicism was reached in the eighth decade of the nineteenth century.

1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 115 But if to avoid the limitations of Kuryłowicz's method, we have to admit that a form passes arbitrarily from one function to another, not taking into account the facts of polarization, attraction, etc., then we fall into mechanicism.

1990 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 51 610 Goethe's..reaction against mathematicism and mechanicism.