 | 1908 - 730 síður
...Director of the American Museum of Natural History, said a few years ago in a popular article " that quite a school of young natural philosophers in Germany...the old teleological and vitalistic theory of living things as opposed to the chemical and mechanical theory." That movement has progressed constantly during... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903 - 902 síður
...aphorism "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will," a moral so strong that quite a school of young natural philosophers in Germany are reviving the older Ideological and vitalistic theory of living things as opposed to the chemical and mechanical... | |
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... evidence of such a thing as spontaneous generation; and many prominent biologists are departing from materialistic views and adopting tbe old doctrine that there is a vital principle In plants and animals entirely distinct from physical and chemical... 