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Anaximenes, a vitalist, 286; his first principle air, 287.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist.

From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman

And, on the other hand, the vitalist must not deny consciousness to non-protoplasmic Nature.

From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by Hill, J. Arthur

As a vitalist it enables us to take a step towards the front--gets us off the "back seat" to which we were summarily ordered at the outset of this inquiry.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Anaximenes is the historical successor of Thales; he was unquestionably a vitalist.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)