The very readiness with which we can picture the corpuscular scheme is a source of embarrassment to the seeker after unity.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
It is enough here to remark that according to this definition, the real essence of an object has, in the progress of physics, come to be conceived as nearly equivalent, in the case of bodies, to their corpuscular structure: what it is now supposed to mean in the case of any other entities, I would not take upon myself to define.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
Apparently the corpuscular beam from an S-Region is several degrees wide and not very sharply defined, since its effects are felt simultaneously over the entire continent.
"Disturbing Sun"
Robert Shirley Richardson