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Updated: June 26, 2025
But Henry had read modern science also. "What about the vital spark, then? Biologists don't turn down the theory of vitalism, do they?" "Most of them do, who count, my dear chap. The presence of a vital spark a spark that cannot be put out is merely a theory with nothing to prove it. When he dies, the animating principle doesn't leave a man, and go off on its own. It dies too.
Thus Fleischmann, a pupil of Selenka’s, after illustrating during many years of personal research the orthodox Darwinian standpoint, finally developed into an outspoken opponent not only of the theory of selection but of the doctrine of descent. So also Friedmann. Driesch started from the mechanical theory of life and advanced through the connected series of his own biological essays to vitalism.
Positivism inducted us into an age of rationalism that is to say, of materialism, mechanism, or mortalism; and behold now the return of vitalism, of spiritualism. What was the effort of pragmatism but an effort to restore faith in the human finality of the universe?
In my day, too, there was some sort of a Humouralist school, Hoffmann, and Brown too with his vitalism they seemed very ridiculous to us, but, of course, they too had been great men at one time or other. Some one new has taken the place of Rademacher with you; you bow down to him, but in another twenty years it will be his turn to be laughed at.
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