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IN his presidential address to Section B of the British Association, Prof. Japp argues the necessity of supposing a “directive force,” or intelligence, to have guided the formation of the first asymmetric substance. “Vitalism,” which at one time was supposed to regulate the physiology and even the mechanics of organised beings, has passed more and more from the foreground, till, in the vision of some it remains only as a point in the vast distance of time at the origin of life. Is it to disappear altogether?
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BARTRUM, C. Chance or Vitalism?. Nature 58, 545 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058545d0
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