id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ht24wh26h7q Bohang Chen The Death of Early Twentieth Century Vitalism 1904 .txt text/plain 42 2 32 The theories of vitalism, exemplified by the doctrine of the entelechy put forth by Hans Driesch, were once popular in the history of science. However, current scholars reject vitalism as a metaphysical heresy because it violates the metaphysics of materialism or physicalism. cache/ht24wh26h7q.txt txt/ht24wh26h7q.txt