vis vitalis

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In his “Cellular Pathologie,”76 and in an essay on “The Old Vitalism and the New,”77 he puts in a word for a vis vitalis.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

In the simplest processes of growth and nutrition the vis vitalis plays its vital rôle.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf