In historical terms, Diderot's full-fledged, materialistic hylozoism apparently relies on Locke's hypothesis concerning thinking matter, on Toland's theory of essentially active matter, on Maupertuis's theory of the spontaneous creative degeneration of the embryo, and probably on Robinet's biological transformationalism as well.

[']The ugly truth is, Gerald,' she said viciously, 'that you're a phoney, a rotten, bombasting phoney, trying to cover up from all the world,[…][']

The ensembled individualism of Africa extends beyond the concept as discussed by Sampson (1988).

[…]Once you didn't need a church key to open a can of beer much anymore, they didn't need me to go around handing out church keys anymore either.