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It was also his belief in vitalism, apparently transmitted to Charles, that provided the “crucial link to alternative medicine,” given that so much of alternative medicine is based on vitalistic beliefs.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2015

In 1899, by fertilizing sea-urchin eggs with chemicals and producing young larvae, he struck a heavy blow at the popular vitalistic theory which maintained that some intangible "vital spirit" or "entelechy" was necessary to life.

From Time Magazine Archive

And DNA, once unveiled, left little room for the ethereal, vitalistic accounts of life that so many people had found comforting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soviet Scientist Oparin waves away the various vitalistic theories which hold that life appeared because of some transcendent animating principle which pervades the universe�or that life has always existed.

From Time Magazine Archive

They call this view the mechanical view of the world; and, as "monism," put it in opposition to the "vitalistic, teleological, and dualistic view of the world."

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.