In the first place the real phenomena exhaust the medium, and only take place at the cost of an enormous expenditure of vital force.
This agent was called vital force; and, under its influence, plants and animals were supposed to collect their materials and to assume determinate forms.
Compared with the notions previously entertained regarding the play of 'Vital force' this is a great result.
Mayer lays the axe to the root of the notions regarding 'vital force' which were prevalent when he wrote.
For by their own theory, the increase of action must cause an increase of wear and tear; hence alcohol instead of sustaining life or vitality, must cause a direct waste or expenditure of vital force.
A doctrine, now discarded, that the phenomena of life are due to a peculiar vital principle; the theory of vital force.
Defn: An action included by vital resistance to some other action; depression or exhaustion of vital force consequent on overexertion or overstimulation; heightened activity and overaction succeeding depression or shock.
Even the defenders of "vital force" would not find any reason in this for not considering the phenomenon of distillation in this case a purely physical phenomenon.
After what has been said I consider this simple experiment of Haberlandt of great significance; for it is a direct proof of the existence of a vital force.
One may resist to his heart's content, but without avail; vital force is again finding its way into science.
The atoms are indestructible; vital force is not: atoms have no age; vital force is born, grows old, and dies.
It is true that Mueller retained to the last (1858) the current idea of a vital force, as the supreme regulator of all the vital activities.
But these powers are ever subsidiary to vital force, and are like attendant spirits chained to do an enchanter’s bidding.
It quickens with yet undiscovered energies; it moves with life: dust is stirred by the mysterious excitement of vital force; and blood and bone, nerve and muscle, are the results.
Christianity is a vital force in a social sense, thank goodness!
Because, as a vital force, it may act in either direction.
I believe that to the great body of Englishmen and Englishwomen Christianity is still a vital force, probably more so to-day than it was some years ago.
An exercise of faith, as a rule, suspends the operation of adverse influences, and appeals strongly through the consciousness, to the inner and underlying faculty of vital force (i.
The reduction of the nutrition to the brain lessens the activity of all the cerebral centers also, and digestion becomes markedly impaired, thereby weakening the organ itself upon which the supply of vital force depends.
For years he was out of health, and he ascribed his weakness to the expenditure of vital force in working wonders during the earlier part of his career.
The greatest amount of vital force is concentrated in the smallest area.
The Yogi practices exercises by which he attains control of his body, and is enabled to send to any organ or part an increased flow of vital force or "prana," thereby strengthening and invigorating the part or organ.
We may consider it as the active principle of life--Vital Force, if you please.
When rapport is established, say mentally to the distant patient, "I am sending you a supply of vital force or power, which will invigorate you and heal you.
The “vital force” of the older natural philosopher, 640.
I must leave others to answer these questions; to me a vital force appears to be inadmissible, not only because we cannot understand the phenomena by its aid, but above all because it is superfluous for their explanation.
What right have we to assume that the typical structures arise by the action of a vital force?
There are two prevalent, but widely differing, conceptions of the nature of life or vital force: the material and the vital.
Economy of Vital Force, which necessitates: Prevention of waste of vital force by the stoppage of all leaks.
Mental and Emotional Influences Our mental and emotional conditions exert a most powerful influence upon the inflow and distribution of vital force.
The chimera "vital force" could no longer gain recognition in the domain of chemistry.
It was little doubted that a so-called "vital force" operated here, replacing or modifying the action of ordinary "chemical affinity.
To effect the synthesis of even the simplest organic compound, it was thought that the "vital force" must be in operation.
Hermann Lotze's famous Medizinische Psychologie, oder Physiologie der Seele, with its challenge of the old myth of a "vital force.
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