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Henry More 1614-87, English philosopher, one of the foremost representatives of the school of Cambridge Platonists . His writings emphasized the mystical and theosophic phases of that philosophy, and as he grew older mysticism dominated his writings. Newton studied under him, and his concept of space and time as "the sense organs of God" greatly influenced Newton's theory of absolute space and time. His chief works are Philosophical Poems (1647) and Divine Dialogues (1668).

Bibliography: See E. Cassirer, The Platonic Renaissance in England (tr. 1953); A. Lichtenstein, Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Platonist (1962); G. R. Cragg, ed., The Cambridge Platonists (1985).

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More, Henry (1614–87), Cambridge Platonist. In various works he defended theism and immortality against the materialism represented by T. Hobbes. He emphasized the instinctive reasonableness of Divine truth and affirmed the existence of a higher principle than reason, which he termed the ‘Divine Sagacity’. It was, he held, possible to apprehend this higher truth only through the cultivation of a righteous disposition and a free intellect, though afterwards this intuitive instinct might be confirmed by the methods of reason.

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More, Henry: see CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS.

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