Here is, in one case, a sudden formal abstraction of a vital principle, and in both an unnatural and violent pushing on.
The question before us is, Can Protestantism and Popery be coordinate powers in the constitution of a free country, and at the same time Christian belief be in that country a vital principle of action?
The immateriality of the souls of brutes is not a discovery of modern philosophy, the scholastics maintained it, and carried their ideas on this subject so far as to assert that no vital principle can be a body.
Who will say that a vital principle cannot be useful if it does not act upon an object within our observation?
Did experience not show it to be so, who would ever have suspected the vital principle of a shapeless and filthy caterpillar to be the same as that of a beautiful butterfly?
In the last lecture I began to investigate the laws by which living bodies are governed, and the effects produced by the different exciting powers, which support life, upon the excitability, or vital principle.
A vital principle, conceived as being made up of matter in the most subtle imaginable state (i.
Erasistratus did at least recognize the existence of a vital principle in the organism, albeit, with his eye on the structures which the scalpel displayed he tended frequently to forget it.
Every experimentalist who thus develops the vital principle may be said to bestow life, without being exposed to the absurd charge of impiety.
I do not suppose for one moment that Mr. Crosse pretended to have discovered the power of imparting life, but merely of having developed a vital principle in substances supposed to be inorganic.
It is certainly not the case that, at the present time, discussion is concentrated on the question of the existence of a vital principle.
Thirty-five years ago the word "vitality" was used as some few philosophising writers are now using the term "vital principle.
No one even knows or attempts to state what is meant by "a vital principle.
What we are certain of is that there is a vital principle of some kind from the beginning, and this is the matter of real importance in the present discussion.
The nature of a vital principle is that in which it normally issues.
Now, if there be no vital principle, all the metaphysical and moral theories which have been hypothecated on its existence, must be reconstructed.
It would be sufficient to say: 'We inquire whether there is a vital principle--the source of all functions of the body, or if life be not merely the result of the regular play of the organs?
Now bear in mind that I speak in this way only in order to conform to your own course of reasoning, for the term 'Vital Principle' is at variance with the actual assertions of science.
The 'vital principle,' unfortunately, needs food and rest to maintain it not only during working hours but during the hours of inactivity as well.
No seven-times heated furnace, much less the experimental flasks of the physicist, will affect a vital principle of nature any more than a May-morning puff of the east wind would shake Olympus.
But the thing that organizes must exist before the thing organized, whether it be a vital principle or an intelligent agency.
All these processes are regarded as a series of manifestations of a vital principle in higher and higher forms.
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