They are not explained by the supposition of mechanists that these agencies are mere efficient causes: efficient causality does not account for order, it has got simply nothing to do with order or regularity.
Mechanists say, Yes; these principles explain it so far as it is capable of explanation.
Mechanists are wont to dismiss the doctrine of final causes in the physical universe with offhand charges of this kind.
And yet he must undoubtedly be regarded as a vitalist by mechanists and vitalists alike.
And within the same group we find the contrasts of believers in monophyletic and believers in polyphyletic evolution, the mechanists and the half-confessed or thoroughgoing vitalists, the preformationists and the believers in epigenesis.
The mechanists help themselves out with crude analogies from the mechanical, conceal the problem with the name "irritability," and thus get rid of the greatest marvels.
But he holds that the mechanists have been mistaken and one-sided in that they have upheld this interpretation and mode of considering things as the sole and the "true" one.
Now if Sir Oliver or any one else could tell us what force is, this difference between the vitalists and the mechanists might be reconciled.
Such stanch materialists and mechanists as Haeckel and Verworn seem to have felt compelled, as a last resort, to postulate a psychic principle in nature, though of a low order.
If we follow the lead of our logical, scientific faculties, then, we shall all be mechanists and materialists.
This seems simple; but the Anti-Mechanists objected to be called Vitalists (obviously the right name for them) on two contradictory grounds.
Samuel Butler was the pioneer of the reaction as far as the casting out was concerned; but the issue was confused by the physiologists, who were divided on the question into Mechanists and Vitalists.
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