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active: see voice voice, grammatical category according to which an action is referred to as done by the subject (active, e.g., men shoot bears) or to the subject (passive, e.g., bears are shot by men). In Latin, voice is a category of inflection like mood or tense.
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What the moon is to the window, just so the Sun is to the Moon: the active principle filling her with light.
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Moreover, in Stoic philosophy, the pneuma or world soul is "intelligent and fiery spirit"; it is one aspect of the Stoic Logos, which is the rational and active principle of the world (Collins 1997:196-97).
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The active principle at work in homeopathy is a verified law of pharmacology, the Law of Similars.
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