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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

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)

The attitude, however, seems to smack of vitalism, and Roux, as we have seen, is no vitalist.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

One might indeed be a vitalist in biology, out of pure caution and conscientiousness, without sharing those prejudices; and many a speculative philosopher has been free from them who has been a vitalist in metaphysics.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

But his own work convinced him of the hopelessness of the task he had undertaken, and he has become as strenuous a vitalist as Butler. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel