‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:42). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-logic-continuity-3.
Quote:
…dead matter would be merely the final result of the complete induration of habit reducing the free play of feeling and the brute irrationality of effort to complete death.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity. MS [R] 948.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-logic-continuity-3