In hmolscience, animated being is []

Overview
In 1845, American physician John Gorman, in his Philosophy of Animated Existences: Sketches of Living Physics, wherein he attempted to outline a hylozoism model of “animated beings”, being governed by the three forces of physics, albeit done such that life and mind were “special creations”, aka god-siding discussions in the background. Gorman, of interesting note, uses the alternative "being or force" (see: being terminology upgrade). Gorman, of anathema, refers to Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, as a “gloomy, wretched philosophy”. [1]

Quotes
The following are related quotes:

“Every thing in this universe has its regular waves and tides. Electricity, sound, the wind, and I believe every part of organic nature will be brought someday within this law. The laws which govern animated beings will be ultimately found to be at bottom the same with those which rule inanimate nature, and as I entertain a profound conviction of the littleness of our kind, and of the curious enormity of creation, I am quite ready to receive with pleasure any basis for a systematic conception of it all. I look for regular tides in the affairs of man, and, of course, in our own affairs. In ever progression, somehow or other, the nations move by the same process which has never been explained but is evident in the oceans and the air. On this theory I should expect at about this time, a turn which would carry us backward.”
— Henry Adams (1863), “Letter to Charles Gaskell” (see: Adams creed) [2]

References
1. Gorman, John. (1845). Philosophy of Animated Existences: Sketches of Living Physics (animated beings, 21+ pgs; forces or beings, pg. vi; Lucretius, pg. 86). Sorin & Ball.
2. (a) Adams, Henry. (1863). “Letter to Charles Gaskell”, Oct.
(b) Adams, Henry. (1982). The Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1: 1858-1868 (editor: Jacob Levenson) (pgs. 395-96). Harvard University Press.
(c) Stevenson, Elizabeth. (1997). Henry Adams: a Biography (pg. 69). Transaction Publishers.
(d) Taylor, Matthew A. (2008). Universes Without Selves: Cosmologies of the Non-Human in American Literature (pg. 108), PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University. ProQuest, 2009.