VITALISM WOBBLES. “There was an ambitious programme of accounting for organic substances with the same matter and processes used in the inorganic realm. But the death of vitalism was far from complete. The nineteenth century, rather, saw a shift away from a vitalism that identified life with a particular substance, and towards an emphasis on organisation.”
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