This phase also of the world-conception has been the subject of the same
misunderstandings and perverted conceptions as its apparent opposite,
materialism.
_A._ In its most extended sense, spiritualism is susceptible of
identification with _psychism_—consequently also with monism. For
_feeling_ (pleasure and pain) is just as much a thoroughly universal and
fundamental property of matter (of each atom!) as is _motion_ (attraction
and repulsion). Every single “spirit” is inseparably united with some
“matter.”
_B._ In its more restricted sense: originally force alone exists and
creates _secondarily_ matter. This view, which is very old and very
widely spread (“creation of the world”), is just as false and as
one-sided as its contrary (5 _B_).