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Example sentences for "vital principle"

  • 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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