| 单词 | vital force |
| 例句 | His knees buckled, his arms gave way beneath him, all vital force now conquered by the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Invoking special vital forces or inventing mystical fluids to explain life was unnecessary. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then this vital force is merely smoldering, awaiting the time to flare again into activity when spring awakens the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was, in truth, more of a Renaissance man than a modern scientist, and still thought in terms of vital forces, an abstract conception of perfection and spirits that kept the body alive. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Adult R&B remained a vital force this year. Eminem's "Recovery" earns top spot on R&B/Hip-hop charts 2010-12-11T00:25:00Z You are battered with strident images and turgid texts, and your vital forces drain into countless flickering screens. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z All the vital forces of the universe are captured in a single blushing cherry blossom. Spring is here. Mother Nature doesn’t care about a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z A second aspect of the week’s activities, Ms. Becker said, is to “see art and culture as a vital force for social change.” Davos Fellows Get Theater Arts Training at Columbia 2010-07-09T23:27:00Z But it uses music as character and catalyst, a vital force uniting artist and fan, hostage and guerrilla, plutocrat and revolutionary. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The evening's hero was less visible than the singing actors on the stage, but a vital force in the orchestra pit. A brilliant new voice gleams in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-10-15T00:36:04Z Exactingly annotated by Amy C. Beal, a scholar and writer, and handsomely packaged, this collection makes a substantial case for Cunningham as a vital force in modern music. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z I felt a kind of vital force from her, just from her voice, and that vital force almost transferred to my body. Sia and Her Terpsichorean Shadow 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s hard to think of a major jazz figure who has been as cloistered as Mr. Jarrett, while remaining a vital force. Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z And yet — for here again is the “and yet” — Mr. Zukofsky was also a vital force in keeping much of his father’s work in print, a fact even his detractors acknowledge. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Bolton said in a statement that "The Soul of It All" is about "the heartfelt emotions and vital forces created in a lifetime spent developing gifts and pursuing passions." ArtsBeat: Avast, Ye Readers! Memoir Coming From Michael Bolton 2012-08-28T15:14:46Z Of particular value is the presence of artists who are vital forces elsewhere, though not well known here. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z And this sense of a vital force, dangerously thwarted and mechanized, courses throughout the show. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z It showed, above all, dance as a vital force. The Bolshoi Ballet’s ‘Giselle’ in Washington 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Inside you is a vital force that is mad with desire to be realized. Where is my true path in life? 2012-11-09T01:00:00Z And this is why the music of Mali remains such a vital force in the fight for all our futures. Mali's magical music 2013-01-18T07:00:00Z His body of work is a cinema of experience—not of Hemingwayesque adventure but of immediate emotion and irrepressible impulse, of the vital force of the moment. The Misunderstood Maurice Pialat 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z For more than three decades, Spike Lee has been one of the most vital forces in film-making. Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z PEN Center USA, the Los Angeles branch of the literary and human rights organization PEN International and a vital force in the city’s literary community, will join forces with the New York PEN in 2018. PEN Center USA will merge with New York chapter to become PEN America 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z This constituency is a vital force in the Democratic Party, but its inclusion at the table of power remains a frustrating work in progress. Opinion | By retiring, Feinstein can make history one more time 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The widespread belief called vitalism held that organic compounds were formed by a vital force present only in living organisms. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Tempels described Bantu peoples as believing in a “vital force,” the source of which is God. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Tyus became a vital force in the formation in 1974 of the Women’s Sports Foundation, which is dedicated to enabling opportunities for girls and women. A Quiet Demonstration and a Long Shadow 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z “As secretary of the department of health and human services, he will be a vital force for progress.” Xavier Becerra, H.H.S. Pick, Was California’s Anti-Trump Attack Dog 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z We were discussing how she’s weathered so many targeted attacks and still remained a vital force. Lana Del Rey and Alison Roman flaunted white women's privilege. But they're not alone 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta rejected the idea of ‘animal electricity’, proposed by his rival Luigi Galvani as a vital force that animates organic matter. Neuroscience needs some new ideas 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Democratic candidates have come to understand that they need policies that target racial inequities, especially to win over black voters — a vital force in the Democratic primary. The Big Ask of Black Voters: Trust the Government 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Yet how can we accept the ironic wisdom of this ending without smothering the vital force of the novel’s earlier secularism? A Neglected Modern Masterpiece and Its Perverse Hero 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z But some vital force of leadership was lost. For 13 years Spurs have tried to be more like Arsenal. It’s time to do the opposite | Barney Ronay 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Granted, such qualities were already a vital force in American history, though it is now chic among cool-minded liberals to dismiss them as nostalgic or worse. Inside the Beltway: The emergence of ‘Trump culture’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The New York state court system has, in fact, emerged as a vital force in the pushback against the president and his financial shenanigans. Cooking the books in the Trump Universe 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The council needed reform, said campaigners, but remained a vital force for accountability and justice in a “post-rights world”. Quitting UN human rights council puts US 'on wrong side of history' – activists 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Latinx immigrants are a vital force in US agriculture, and the delivery of their cheap work was made possible by class restructuring on two fronts. How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z If Sunday was the last Olympic appearance for Ligety, which means the last time that most Americans will see him competing, he leaves a legacy as a vital force in skiing in the United States. Ski Ace Ted Ligety Bows Out of Olympics. Will It Be for Good? 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The social network, which turned 10 last year, remains both a vital force for free expression on the web and yet also a cesspool of hate, abuse, and harassment. The Verge 2017 tech report card: Twitter 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z He marvelled that Darwin's theory “implies a greater vital force in nature, because it is more flexible and accommodating, and equivalent to a sort of constant new creation”. Natural history: Thoreau's debt to Darwin : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z “Chris has been a vital force for the project, helping the team move from a research phase to a point where this life-saving technology will soon become a reality. He departs with our warmest wishes.” Google’s self-driving car CTO Chris Urmson departs 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The commission is a vital force for newly arrived immigrants in the city, helping them to find accommodation, learn Maltese and English, and to get jobs. Doctor, artist, engineer, blogger: human stories of Malta's own migration crisis 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Or perhaps they should model themselves on gardeners, as proposed by Dr. Victoria Sweet and others who urge modern medicine to nourish patients’ innate vital force rather than simply replace their parts. Book Review: ‘The Finest Traditions of My Calling’ 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z What I felt strongly at the funeral was the vital force of real community: people who experienced where they lived as a fabric woven from memory, ritual and habit, affection and love. Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco | Rebecca Solnit 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z But conservatism is alive right now, in ways that are both alarming and fascinating, and it is a much more vital force than that. Iowa, New Hampshire, and the Conservative Future 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Australian cinema was an uncommonly vital force in the 1970s and 1980s, with gritty "Ozploitation" B movies sharing international attention with the artier output of impressive young filmmakers like Bruce Beresford. The fun of 'The Flash's' first season out on DVD, Blu-ray 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z But on a Heat team whose Big Three — James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh — get the majority of the attention, Allen is still a vital force. Allen Elevates His Game and Heat’s 2014-05-08T01:43:44Z The degree of technical innovation evidenced not only by the new iPad Air, but particularly by the mind blowing Mac Pro show that Apple is still a very vital force in hardware. New Apple Tablet Renamed iPad Air, Now Just One Pound But No Gold Or Touch ID 2013-10-22T18:54:00Z According to the historic concept of vitalism, all living things possess a sort of ‘vital force’ that is beyond scientific detection. Phytochemical Pharmacy: The Healing Potential of Plants 2013-04-15T18:45:06.090Z We have the foundations, the civilization, the vital forces that make it possible for us to achieve these dreams. Egyptians to Kerry: Stop Backing Dictators 2013-03-09T09:45:00Z Moreover, as John Morley puts it, “to tamper with veracity is to tamper with the vital force of human progress.” Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z Science can only say that the known cases of hibernation among warm-blooded animals show that the vital forces may be reduced much lower without destroying life, than but for them we should have deemed conceivable. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The outer rind and husk of things fall to the ground by that vital force which is continually developing a larger and nobler life in the community. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z This theory was long ago discounted through notable experiments that proved life is not produced by a vital force, but the concept survives and takes on a more indirect form when applied to natural products. Phytochemical Pharmacy: The Healing Potential of Plants 2013-04-15T18:45:06.090Z Here, again, what a lamentable waste of vital force, what an invertebrate entity crying aloud to be overhauled, remodelled, jointed, and braced! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z An eagle, broken winged and drooping in a cage, he sat within the goat-herd's hut and gloomed upon his lot, and cursed the vital force within that would not let him die. The Jester's Sword How Aldebaran, the King's Son Wore the Sheathed Sword of Conquest 2012-04-07T02:00:31.563Z Dr. Barker was of opinion that, as the heart in every case began to beat, it was a want of vital force to set the lungs in proper motion that caused death. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z The vital force of an animal or a plant is supplied by the same physical agencies which we have considered above. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I mean that I feel no doubt that the great majority of the Mormon men are drawn to and kept in Mormonism by a belief in its truth and vital force as a religion. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z A genial, hearty laugh, therefore, prolongs life, by conveying a distinct and additional stimulus to the vital forces. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z "My vital forces seem to fail me," he muttered; "even here it seems as though there is good." The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z There are still some students who prefer to believe in the existence of a special vital force, which is not subject to the laws that govern other forces. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Where was it, this pervading vital force within me? Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z But they must not on any account interfere with the operations; any more than Nature in general may interfere with strictly physical inquiries, or Life and vital force with the theories of biology. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Now we intend to treat more the possibilities of how long it is possible for mankind to retain all their mental faculties and enjoy sufficient vital force to battle with the world for a livelihood. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Himself an incurable invalid, he maintained the vital forces through many years of eminent usefulness to others, only by dint of the most strenuous adherence to the strictest requirements of the Science of the Physique. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Gradually she transformed the labor page into a vital force in the trade-union world. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z I could apparently concentrate my vital force on one spot, for instance; but, exert myself as I would, I could not break the tie. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z The eighteenth century produced practically nothing that was to live and be a vital force in aftertimes. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z In this, we obtain some idea how little we actually know about life, how dark is the region where the life principle begins, or where the vital forces originate. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Thus his style appears animated not only by vital force, but by an impressive solemnity, befitting the grave and dignified emotion which responds to such ideas. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z This is its vital force as a kingdom, which it has gone on exerting for eighteen hundred and fifty years without a moment’s suspension. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Thus also digestion weakens all the animal functions, because it requires the whole vital force to overcome the chemical forces of nature by assimilation. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z I summoned what remained to me of vital force, and went through this ceremony with devotion. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Homeopathic treatments are based on principles unverified by mainstream science, and often reference mystical-sounding concepts like “vital force” and “healing energy.” Federal regulators order companies to stop selling homeopathic weight loss remedies 2011-12-06T17:04:50Z All sport and recreation is now regarded only as sustaining the vital forces for the ordeal. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Christianity is a vital force in a social sense, thank goodness! A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z It is a living and vital force that is innate in man as being one with Nature. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Who does not know the man who masters life and becomes a vital force, while his wife remains dull and empty? The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z There was such a suggestion of youth about her--the youth which must prevail, of vital force, of physical vigour. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Yet matter, whatever its form, is still indestructible, and will forever retain its vital forces. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z I believe that to the great body of Englishmen and Englishwomen Christianity is still a vital force, probably more so to-day than it was some years ago. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Black Tongue appears when the system is deprived of vital force, as in the last stages of blaine, &c. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Theatre managers, stage designers, actors, playwrights, and professors in universities recognize its presence as a vital force. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z The day comes when vital forces of which we know nothing arise within us, and break like glass the even tenor of our lives. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z IV It is the natural release of vital forces, consequent upon the normal wane of mother-power at middle-age, that has been mainly responsible for the errors of the Woman's Movement. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Because, as a vital force, it may act in either direction. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Do not the old school argue that the most destructive agents in nature may be made to 'aid the vital forces in the removal of disease by the judicious application of them'? The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z No one, however, has more than a certain, limited, amount of vitality to express in his or her life; the vital force may take one form or another, but cannot be used twice over. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The examination system of Laud had lacked a motive power, and had depended, like his policy, on his fiat instead of vital force. Oxford and Her Colleges 2011-11-02T02:00:09.560Z Over two hundred thousand tons of blood, and seventy-five million gallons of air have been moved by the vital force. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The draughts upon their vital forces are more taxing than the coal bills.' Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Inflammation is the concentration of the available vital force too much upon a small region of the body, and it is invited there by irritation. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z This is but a rough illustration, and, while possibly useful, takes into account none of the vital forces which are constantly controlling every part of the distributing system. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z Not only so, but in her sudden breakdown of vital force, there is no one to understand the despair over her own weakness, except, indeed, that brother Joe who alone understands her. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z With the cunning of a madman, this person of profound learning, led from the innocence of ignorance to the heartlessness of advanced biological science, secretly planned to seek the vital forces. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Yet those very traits in their truer expression have been the vital force of the people, and give us our savor as a nation. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z How powerful, indeed, must the resistance appear which the vital force supplies to leaves charged with oil of turpentine or tannic acid, when we consider the affinity of oxygen for these compounds! The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z He was sick; he grew old again; he stooped, and became gloomy and taciturn; he entered upon another phase of life; but his vital forces, which he had not squandered, still sustained him. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z The Supreme Court, in his eyes, is a vital force for justice, comprised of men and women who make an earnest attempt to get the law right. John Paul Stevens publishes Supreme Court memoir 2011-10-03T16:25:00Z This act of respiration is the result of one of the conditions of surface earth life, and consumes most of the vital force. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Has it already exhausted its vital force by two or three centuries of hyper-exertion? The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z All force is conceived as vital force; "souls" or "wills" govern all. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z In certain conditions of disease, accompanied by great depression of the vital forces, this deviation from normal perception is greatly increased. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z And it is a wild assumption that if a supreme and vital force exist, a living God, He cannot make His energies visible without affecting the stability of law. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Now, to try to dig a hole without a shovel, and with snow coming more rapidly than any power of man could remove, seemed a waste of needed vital force. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z While religion is committed to the explanation of the world in terms of vital force, science is committed to that of non-conscious mechanism. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z It needs to shine through a human being before it can exert its vital force on a young student. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z By slow degrees the music had done the first part of its work: the sluggish forces of his life began to tremble, the quiverings of returning vital force began to thrill his torpid nerves. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z He came as an element powerful and pervasive, not as a Personality bestowed in all His vital force on any one. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The band of little people of the Farthest North furnished without pay the vital force and the primitive ingenuity without which the quest of the Pole would be a hopeless task. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Hence we so often find entire lack of sensibility in women accustomed to great mental activity,--because their supply of vital force is not sufficient for the double occupation of thinking and feeling. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z If we reach any of these, and can touch them, then we can draw their vital force out of them into ourselves, and recuperate at their expense. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z This vital force, sparing her many of the doubts and fears so common to the weak, but which the strong seldom know, enables her to endure patiently privation, watching, and bereavement. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z They were animals without the restraining instincts of the animal, they lusted for the exercise of their great muscles, and the vital forces which swept through their veins in a passionate torrent. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z But, to us, it multiplied vital force and increased greatly the daily advance. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z So much vital force wasted in fruitless energy--so much noble zeal expended upon a blunder. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Simultaneously with this compacting and consolidating of the figure, came your degeneration and loss of vital force and, in a word, of health. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z This vital force behind the nervous system contains stores of energy that can be called on for therapeutic purposes. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The arc and incandescent lights are object lessons they ought to study, for they will see almost an exact representation of how all light, heat and vital force are created on suns and planets. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z An air of splendid vital force, despite his infirmity, was diffused from his whole person, and defied the fact of his actual age, which was two years short of sixty. A Day with Walt Whitman 2011-06-05T02:00:12.967Z He was one of the vital forces of our earlier national growth. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z What worth have forests or mines or any material wealth, gained at the sacrifice of so much vital force? Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The energy of Forssell was so great, and he understood so little the economy of strength, that he unquestionably overtaxed his vital force. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Thus we find that light, heat and vital force is created by the contact of the positive and negative electricity in the magnetic atmosphere of suns and worlds. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Life and Mind.—Taking vital force in its highest expression, in man, it is self-conscious and has independent will. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Old ideals, exhausted and devoid of vital force, are exchanged for fresh and beautiful reality. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z We do not know that any vital forces pulsate from the great interior bulk of the earth. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z His vital forces began perceptibly to give way. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z I contend that man's body is an electric machine or organism, and electricity is its vital force and governing power, and all sickness is caused by the electrical derangement of the bodily organism. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The spirals at b represent the life of plants; and those at i animal life, now termed vital energy or vital force. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z I should compare Rubens to Shakespeare for the wonderful variety and vital force of his artistic power. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Dissymmetry probably represents some essential manifestation of vital force. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z It is only one instance among many of his extraordinary vital force. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z They created a religion that is still to this day one of the most vital forces in the world. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z The magnetic disturbances are much greater at times than others; hence the subject is complicated; but when investigated it will be shown that there is co-operation between vital force and the energies of nature. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The “observations” to which this writer refers to sustain his hypothesis are those which had been made upon certain vegetable infusions, which, in certain circumstances, exhibited minute particles in motion, apparently by vital forces. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The vital force had drained out of a thousand forms which have served their day; no past tradition was absolute; they had found it out. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Whatever they did had a vital force in it that made it live and prove a stimulus and an example to the generations and the centuries down to our own time. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z If heat be applied to the body, or magnetism, or vital forces, there is nothing in it to retain them any more than there would be in a stone. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Recognise this vital force of the immovable truth that an injustice to one American citizen will react upon all. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z All the vital forces crowd to your head, and your legs are powerless to support you. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z Alexander Lebedev sees his newspapers as vital forces against tyranny, oppression and corruption. Is Alexander Lebedev's journalism crusade an empty one? 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z Like most of his writings, however, it possessed a vital force of its own, and some one printed a second edition of it. The True Benjamin Franklin His style marks the maturity of development after which the vital force animating the growth of the Latin language begins to decay. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In this downward course his constitution held out—for he was by nature exceedingly tenacious of life—till about the twenty-third day, when the vital forces began to retreat. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician No, no, these eccentricities do but prove the vital force of England. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z He's unpretentious, self-deprecating and he talks of the papers he owns or part owns as vital forces against corruption, tyranny and oppression. Is Alexander Lebedev's journalism crusade an empty one? 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z Notwithstanding these tendencies and results, yet reproduction is the expression of the fullness of physical life and vital force. What a Young Husband Ought to Know The maturity of accomplishment immediately preceded and partly occasioned the decay in vital force. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The reason was just that both breath and nervous force are needed to shout; and Dan Failing could afford to waste neither of these vital forces. The Voice of the Pack It was formerly supposed that the organic combinations of these elements were found only in living organisms and could be fashioned only by vital forces. The Mechanism of Life But if Pathema's head would bow down or turn aside, or if her vital force would go, and it could not last long, there would then be the sure and fatal spring. The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril The vitalisation of matter itself, and the arrangement of the ultimate particles which constitute a living body, are the work of the vital force in a polarised condition. The Speech of Monkeys Labor, by sending its fruits out into the world, places our vital force at the disposal of others. On the Heights A Novel Also, it annoyed him that he should not have sufficient vital force to resist getting chilled by a whiff of wind on a day so mild as this. Shadows of Flames A Novel I began to realize what tension these men work under, what vital force they waste in vague alarms! Careers of Danger and Daring It was as though some vital force passed from her veins to his, calming, invigorating. What a Man Wills In vital economy, the search-light of science has found the protoplasm which from our present state of knowledge seems to be the first point of contact between elemental matter and the vital force. The Speech of Monkeys A seed-grain lies at first motionless in the earth, until it is stirred into activity by its own vital forces. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine But that which has a beginning has an end, that which has life must die when the vital force is exhausted. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Jewish thinkers felt all the more the need to point out as fundamentals or roots of Judaism those doctrines upon which it rests, and from which it derives its vital force. Jewish Theology Some physicists of to-day ascribe to women a peculiar power of concentrating upon one short effort an amount of vital force which should carry them through long years, and which, once expended, cannot be restored. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) But as the living form develops organs and members, through the agency of the vital force, whatever that may be, so consciousness develops into desires, emotion and thought. The Speech of Monkeys First, then, I do not believe that we can find this recovery of vital force in our general administration of public business. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) After any substantial meal, observe, you need all your vital force for the beginning of digestion. Methods of Authors Judaism counts its prophets, its sages, and its martyrs by generations; it is still demonstrating its power to reshape and regenerate religion as a vital force. Jewish Theology All the vital force flies to the brain, and your legs refuse to carry you. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Bancroft's generous policy placed the new institution upon a firm basis, and it became at once a vital force in the life of the United States Navy. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 It is the only vital force left in the world. Turning Point He made use of the words “vital force” or “vital principle,” not as an occasional, but as a common, explanation of the phenomena of the living body. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse As I said, until now your vital forces have been employed in keeping you alive. Almost a Woman To see her was to be immediately impressed with a vital force in womanhood. The "Genius" “Vitalism,” according to this authority, is to be rejected, but instead of “vital force” he offers us “given properties,” and the alleged machine-like collocations of the most minute elements. Naturalism And Religion As Acton remarks: “It is a highly organized fluid requiring the expenditure of much vital force in its elaboration and its expulsion.” Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects Whenever any vital force is impressed on any organic substance, so as to die gradually away as the substance extends, an infinite curve is commonly produced by its outline. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) She is failing in health, hence she has not vital force 45 to spend in completing her physical development.” Almost a Woman So much stronger is the promise of a vital force when they have refound their emancipation. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy If vital force itself were to call out from its cells, “Here I am,” they would probably see in it only a remarkable case of “irritability.” Naturalism And Religion Such external treatment only palliates the suffering for a little while without removing the disordered vital force that gave origin to its appearance. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects It was the fall of Constantinople that first weakened the vital force of the Eastern Church. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" If it implied a waste of vital force, a giving up, a postponement of life, it were a roundabout path to development and happiness. The Kempton-Wace Letters One is more liable to pneumonia and tuberculosis, and can not fight them successfully as these organs have lost much of their vital force because of their cramped conditions. The Colored Girl Beautiful Since Wöhler's discovery that urea could be built up by artificial combination, more and more of the carbon-compounds which were previously regarded as specialities of the vital force have been produced by artificial syntheses. Naturalism And Religion Therefore be sure that this affection is treated constitutionally; so long as the vital forces work in harmonious order, no abnormal appearances of any kind can come to light, because they do not exist. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects No proclamation of false doctrines could be so great a disaster as the weakness of faith which would prove that the power of recovery, the vital force of Catholicism, was extinct in the episcopate. The History of Freedom There is only a certain amount of the vital force for parents or children to use in this business of education, and one must choose what it shall be used for. Household Papers and Stories Beauty is so dependent upon vital strength that every atom of vital force is needed and none must be wasted. The Colored Girl Beautiful He, too, refuses, as usual, to postulate “vital force.” Naturalism And Religion Or, uncomfortable conditions may arise, as they often do, from some morbid condition of the vital forces. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects The farmer must depend on vital forces in soil and air in order to raise a crop. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy With the ballot in her hand woman becomes a vital force—declaring her will for herself, instead of praying and beseeching men to declare it for her. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Breathing is a vital force which sends blood to fill out wrinkles and eradicate blemishes and spots. The Colored Girl Beautiful Our “protoplasm” is as mystical as the old “vital force,” and both are only camping-grounds for our ignorance. Naturalism And Religion Physical life being conditioned upon organization, whenever the organism varies, the vital force thus manifested must also vary, such variation being necessarily antecedent to its manifestation. The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science In that case, if he is to possess any vital force it must be supplied to him from without. An Outline of Occult Science It is no other than a revived form of the ancient doctrine of a "vital force," which we had imagined to have been finally discarded. God and the World A Survey of Thought Air is the most important factor in generating vital force and it is the best tonic in the world. The Colored Girl Beautiful Certainly not the hypothesis of vital force, which is far from being clear. Naturalism And Religion You see, then, why the Law is called "the letter": though noble doctrine, it remains on the surface; it does not enter the heart as a vital force which begets obedience. Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent He has lost that narrow margin of vital force, those last few ounces of strength and stamina which win or lose at the finish. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp The vital forces of the child being feeble, less heat is generated in its system than in that of an adult. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Before proceeding directly to the consideration of the attributes of man, it will be best to show the correlation that exists between what are called man's vital forces and the physical forces of nature. Was Man Created? If these be given, the most complex processes fulfil themselves of necessity and without the intervention of special vital forces. Naturalism And Religion I think beyond doubt that he gives us the impression of something dynamic, something akin to the vital forces of the organic world, much more distinctly and fully than any other poet who has lived. Whitman A Study You will in extreme intimacy love them, hate them, serve them, struggle with them, and in that interaction the vital force in you and the substance of your days will be spent. The Passionate Friends It is, in one word, a want of vital force. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Yet so much of herself, of her vital force, had gone into the building up of Storm that sometimes a realization of what was about to happen stabbed through her dreaming like a sharp pain. Kildares of Storm Bartolommeo, when he breaks away and sets out to paint by himself, is crude and strong, but full of vital force. The Venetian School of Painting I suppose all great vital forces, whether embodied in a man or in a book, work evil as well as good. Whitman A Study Dominated by a man and an emotion they were, not the drudging machines of the mines, but a vital force ready for action. At the Crossroads We think that in these figures, more than in the whole of our argument, may be seen that vital force of Hellenism which it exercises on the destinies and the future of the East. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The feebleness and sterility of hybrids derived from widely separated races or nearly allied different species proves the deficiency in vital force of the offspring of fundamentally dissimilar procreators. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study For the next nine years this National College League was a vital force in the movement for woman suffrage. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Not only does science establish the fact that primordial life is feminine, but it also proves that a greater expenditure of vital force is requisite for the production of the feminine than for the masculine. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Music alone is a vital force, an instrument for rescuing the world from its moral and spiritual decay. Melomaniacs This extension of the vital forces of the nation is, doubtless, a visible progress. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The other part of prevention consists in building up and holding up the vitality of the individual to a point where the vital forces can successfully oppose the attacks of the germs. Rural Hygiene She had, however, put too great a strain on her vital forces and died July 2, at the age of seventy-two. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The second, or vital force, is something superadded to the inherent sort. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 It is this fund which in its turn is one of the vital forces necessary for the normal activities and progress of industry. War Taxation Some Comments and Letters But this seems to despoil Christianity of its vital force. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors This is to be exclusively explained by the youthful self-consciousness of an internal, inexhaustible vital force, and by the child-like inexperience. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The organ which has ceased to discharge corresponding functions is simply a drag upon the vital forces. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies The child's birth-stock of vital force is his capital to be traded upon. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character But it drains the remaining vital forces, and the reaction is terrible. The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. We dwell on this because our author seems to us to have assumed a position injurious, if not fatal, to the most vital force of the gospel. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Hugh felt that such experience as this, experience, that is, in the vital force of prayer, might be called a subjective experience, and could not be put to a scientific test. Beside Still Waters The seed has in it a germ of life and a hidden vital force which heat, moisture and the soil have the capacity of developing, so that it reproduces itself. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 The raw material includes the racial endowment, temperament, degree of vital force, mentality, aptitude for tool or industry, for art or science. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character Before I have finished I shall know the nature of the vital force—how to produce it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Adam was asleep, when Eve as a vital force leaped away from him. The Dust Flower This new vital force, this purer element, infused into the society at the capitol, has been slowly introducing more liberal ideas into that community. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III All the physical and vital forces of the universe are but the manifestation of his power. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 How shall we get back the energy we have expended and so restore our vital forces to their equilibrium? What a Young Woman Ought to Know The spark of life, the vital force, is merely an extremely complicated electrical manifestation which I have been able to duplicate artificially. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The body which rose from Joseph's tomb was to him a physical reality and the inexhaustible fountain of his vital forces. Days of Heaven Upon Earth The actual collapse of vital forces has not come—will not come for a few days. Somehow Good Without a God to endow the body with this vital force, there would be none, and consequently no digestion and no animal heat or physical force. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Individuals may weigh themselves down by development of muscles until they have not sufficient internal vital force to carry so much weight. What a Young Woman Ought to Know More than this, I have learned the secret of the vital force—the spark of life. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 If the Nile could overflow the whole desert it would all be fertilized, and perhaps if we had sufficient vital force we could develop all the faculties whose germs we inherit. The Invader A Novel The one vital force on whom she depended for her spiritual illumination and her life's security was the Rev. Edwin Pole-Knox. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange The chemist can purchase every ingredient that enters into the composition of bone except the vital force, without which he can not make an inch of bone. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 These cases may be accounted for by the nervous strain, the using up of vital forces in mental effort to such degree that there is nothing left with which to carry on the menstrual function. What a Young Woman Ought to Know By recharging, as it were, with the vital force, the gland action is intensified, youth and strength is renewed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 The cold water kept the inflammation down, and it seemed as if all the vital forces of her strong, healthy body set to work at once to repair the damage. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Hence basilar depth produces vital force and muscular power. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 No physician can possibly have a correct physiological theory of the cure of disease who ignores the presence and power and office of the vital force in the human system. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 The vital forces are busy establishing a new function, and the energy that has been expressed in bodily activity is now being otherwise employed. What a Young Woman Ought to Know Its leading characteristic being the law of the expression of the vital forces and feelings in outward acts. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 All nature owed its existence to the Ri and Ki, the determining principle and the vital force of primordial aura that produces and modifies motion. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The occipital region is associated with the spinal column and the limbs, in which regions the vital forces reside. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 Every vital manifestation of this seed is the result of vital force with which the Creator has endowed every perfect seed. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 That the vital forces needed the support of all the food the stomach of the sick could dispose of, was not a question of the remotest consideration. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Alcohol was supposed to rouse up and support vital forces in disease. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Exhaustion, on the other hand, not only weakens the muscles of the body, but it also lessens the vital forces and powers to resist germs. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition His eye was dim, but more with watching and study than with the natural failing of vital forces. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... What was the vital force that brought about this cultural evolution and unification? The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept? The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Is it not placing obstacles in the way of the vital forces which are already hampered in their work by the powerfully toxic agents to the influence of which they are subjected? Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say A man whose influence has never died out among men, and who is to-day a vital force in the world of religion, of philanthropy, and of letters. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History With vital force in the earth and continual creation on the part of the original Creator, he expands our bit of a residence as desired. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Associated with progressive anemia is mal-assimilation, improper nutrition, ebbing of the nervous and vital forces and the lessening of the secretory, excretory and digestive powers. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis To reinforce this physiology, this statement may be made with the strongest emphasis: the medical treatment of chronic disease fails inevitably because it fails to consider the vital force involved. The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure For by their own theory, the increase of action must cause an increase of wear and tear; hence alcohol instead of sustaining life or vitality, must cause a direct waste or expenditure of vital force.” Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say In the vegetable world, as is well known, there are various plants that depend wholly on other plants for the supply of their vital forces. Our Bird Comrades "Sir Oliver seems to admit, indeed, that the vital force is not in its nature distinct from physical force, but holds that it needs 'guidance.'" Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' For an instant it seemed almost as if the devil of disease were wrestling inside of him, as if the small vital force she called life would be beaten out in the struggle. Virginia In physical science we know the vital force exists which builds the germ and sperm cells, but we do not comprehend it. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Depression of the vital forces and local abrasions are predisposing factors. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine All the Arts advance steadily during this stage of national growth, and are lovely, even in their deficiencies, as the buds of flowers are lovely by their vital force, swift change, and continent beauty. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 There is no serious scientific demur to Haeckel's assumption of a monism of the physical world, and his identification of vital force with ordinary physical and chemical forces. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Acting in that manner, they throw out or expend the vital forces, and exhaust the energies which belong to the posterior part of the brain and posterior part of the body. Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 The vital force," in the germ, "is not the entire force or means of growth; heat is a constructive stimulus, but amounts to nothing where there is no life. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 It corresponds to the vital force which moulds the structure of the social organism, although it may never have been distinctly formulated by any one of the actors. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill This was a thing of vital force, for ever changeful. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Mr. Ashman's book is a little bewildering to an outsider who fails to distinguish the two vital forces. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The only known ultimate cause of vital force, either in animals or in plants, is a chemical process. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science That is, in his philosophy, the "vital force is produced by the organism," and the "organism is produced by the vital principle?" The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 The great social phenomenon was the tendency to degeneration, the gradual dissolution of an organism, and corruption destroying the vital forces. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Therefore, universities of the very highest order become every year more desirable—nay, necessary—for the preservation and the development of the vital forces of American democracy. Colleges in America The stronger the vital force of the person, the stronger and brighter will this border of prana aura appear. Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers Death is that condition in which chemical or mechanical powers gain the ascendancy, and all resistance on the part of the vital force ceases. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science By virtue of this law, a nation is a living organism, resisting with all its vital force whatever may threaten it with dissolution. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy And thus light, heat, gravity, mechanical power, electricity, magnetism, vital force and universal motion, are but one principle variously expressed. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces Sea power has always been a vital force in the rise and fall of nations and in the evolution of civilization. A History of Sea Power Casting the term "vital force" from our vocabulary, let us reduce, if we can, the visible phenomena of life to mechanical attractions and repulsions. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Disease occurs when the sum of vital force, which tends to neutralise all causes of disturbance, is weaker than the acting cause of disturbance. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Men may be doubtful whether vital force is situate in air or in fire, but who can doubt that he himself lives, remembers, understands, wills, thinks, knows, and judges? Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity And in its workshop, its mechanical and vital forces are keeping up all motions in animal and plant, earth, ocean, and air. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces The English colonists throve in it because they and their forefathers had been trained in a school of self-control and self-dependence; and what would have been intoxication for others, was vital force to them. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America This agent was called vital force; and, under its influence, plants and animals were supposed to collect their materials and to assume determinate forms. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The accelerated change of matter and the elevated temperature in the diseased part show that the resistance offered by the vital force to the action of oxygen is feebler than in the healthy state. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Agassiz himself was a living and vital force in it, as were such men as Joseph Leidy and H. F. Osborne. American Men of Mind Has it already exhausted its vital force by two or three centuries of hyperexertion? The New World of Islam Nursing women are generally sterile, above all, during the first months which follow accouchement, because the vital forces are then concentrated on the secretion of the milk. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother Mayer lays the axe to the root of the notions regarding 'vital force' which were prevalent when he wrote. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In bad cases, months will be required to effect a cure; but persistent effort, as above prescribed, will rarely if ever fail, unless the vital force is nearly expended. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication If man were not linked to God, and unconsciously receiving an inflow of recuperative vital force, the multitudinous destroyers would soon disintegrate his physical organism. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 With the nation, all its laws, principles, vital forces, are equally menaced and imperilled; and they are, in virtue of that very fact, in abeyance, in order that they may be saved. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Are these raps due to exteriorized vital force? The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The real, vital forces at work in our own lives and in the world about us are not seen by the ordinary physical eye. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty Nevertheless the vital force of his unknown individuality addressing him so familiarly was enough to fluster Mr Smith. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Then, as if moved by the same spirit, they leaped to their feet with all a boy’s energy and vital force. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story Is it not manifest, that while the demands upon the vital force have been increased, the supply of material has been decreased? The Education of American Girls The more perfect, the better these conditions, the greater the influx of vital force, and vice versa. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Besides this, one observes a disquieting depression of vital force, which must be attributed to the abuse man makes of his sensations. The Simple Life These are the vital forces that work beneath the surface and dominate the external form. The Frontier in American History But the system had no vital force within itself, and could not withstand those laws of nature and free emigration to which we have adverted. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Perhaps he had waited too long for the simple breakfast; perhaps the recent glory had drained him of vital force. The Dragon Painter Perchance there is still enough vital force left therein to heal the wound after the disease has been removed. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon Therefore, I respect all the vital forces in it at the cost of my life and my fortune. The Philippine Islands At this time of his life, Diderot resisted Maupertuis’s theory of the unity of vital force in the universe, or perhaps we should rather say that he saw how open it was to criticism. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The stronger the vital force, the plainer will be the perception of the phenomenon. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms We have said that the war has given the North a higher conception of its manhood and its duties, and of the vital force of ideas. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The war was followed in the United States by an expansion of the vital forces of the nation in all directions. Union and Democracy It is not in the true American idea to be too content; it means running to seed, a weakening of the will and the vital force. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Slowly but steadily Susan Garland's vital forces died out, and at last there came a morning when her breath faltered on her lips. A Daughter of the Middle Border This appearance is manifested neither by any of the mental or emotional states, nor is it the prana-aura or vital force which I have described in a previous chapter. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms As most of the vital forces and movements in modern civilization had their origin in Greece, this means that, to study them properly, we must get back to Greece. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Her words, instead of harming me, had roused all the resentment of the strong vital force within me. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Men who represent vital forces like these, are as solid, unconquerable in human life as the force of gravity, the multiplication table they are. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak His diagnosis revealed no malignant disease, but indicated a total collapse of vital forces. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 By controlling external forces, Dr. Bose stopped the pulsation and re-started it and thus demonstrated that the 'automatic action' was not due to any internal vital force. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Feeling a little later the failure of vital force, he exclaimed, 'Glad and full of hope will I go with you, my good God!' How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions Before that, we had been inclined to look upon it as just a natural failing of the vital forces, a thing that came from within, and was in no sense caused from without. Preventable Diseases The ideal of service was the vital force which must be kept in mind and the work of the Grain Growers' Association in fostering this ideal must be encouraged. Deep Furrows So with all that has been produced, withdraw the vital force and ruin immediately follows. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View The result has been that religion is not consciously felt as a vital force among many people who axe not directly connected with an ecclesiastical institution. Society Its Origin and Development The effect of these stretches is to harmonize the vital forces. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull. Selected Essays But in this article we think chiefly of the mother, and of the necessary drain of blood and vital force which she bears in nursing. Papers on Health He would be using his own vital force to preserve the perishable property of another. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Several of the large cities of the United States contain denominational headquarters where world-wide activities receive direction, veritable dynamos for the generation of one of the vital forces of society. Society Its Origin and Development Without the awakening or enjoyment of life the vital forces show little response. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions In the adolescent stage of youth vital forces surge through the body, they are perhaps indefinable but they are none the less potent. Spirit and Music In such a case it may be supported; but means must be used by hot fomentations to strengthen the joint, and general rubbing, especially on the spine, must be used to increase vital force. Papers on Health The usurer gains the preservation of his own perishable property, and he gains also the product of the vital force of his victim. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View This religion which we talk about for an hour a week, on Sunday, is not only the vital force which protects our community, but it is the vital force which makes our communities. Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come Watching the sheep jump over a fence and counting one at a time, for example, affects the breathing and all the vital forces of the body. How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions “If you were under my charge, Master Bob Roberts,” said the doctor, panting with the heat, “I should reduce that vital force of yours a little, sir.” Middy and Ensign On the contrary, rest and fresh air allow the weak vital force to recruit. Papers on Health He has a right to his own vital energy and to all that his own vital force produces. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View But this is not easy; for mental labor exhausts, and if the vital forces are still further diminished by dissipation, disease and premature decay of the intellectual faculties will be the result. Education and the Higher Life Even the defenders of "vital force" would not find any reason in this for not considering the phenomenon of distillation in this case a purely physical phenomenon. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers And to accomplish the reconciliation of the races and the regions he gave the vital force which finally cost him his life. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Wherever the swelling is, increase the vital force that supplies the gland, and so you will cure the whole evil at its source. Papers on Health The vital force expended in a wrong direction does evil instead of good. Better Dead These manifestations of the universal force, he says, are due to vital force, and this latter is due to physical force, both being proportionate to the amount of physical force which is "transformed" into them. Memories and Studies After what has been said I consider this simple experiment of Haberlandt of great significance; for it is a direct proof of the existence of a vital force. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers The acorn will then become as fine a tree as it has vital force to become. Short Studies on Great Subjects The first effect of such a fall is to deprive the brain and spinal cord of vital force. Papers on Health The mystical doctrine of a vital force was rife in Lamarck’s time. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work One feels their overpowering weariness, their leaden sleep after so many nights of vigil; their absolute relaxation after so many consecutive days in which all the vital forces have been stretched to the breaking point. With Those Who Wait Hence it was even then absurd to deny vital force as a consequence of that experiment. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Then all the plants slowly lose their vital forces, and, at the same time, some of their reality. The Child of Pleasure It will be well also to use the cold injection, as it will be found to take good effect whenever the vital force has been increased by the hot packing. Papers on Health A man of great vital force is united to a woman of evenly-balanced organization. Plain Facts for Old and Young The battery of her vital forces was depleted and depolarized. Phantom Wires A Novel Nor have I ever despaired of a return of the theory of vital force. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers The strangest thing of all was that she had never heard his music, knew nothing at first hand of his talent, yet believed in it with such vital force, such completeness. The Way of Ambition Where the rate is very low, only perfect quiet in bed for a time can bring down the expenditure far enough to enable the vital force gradually to accumulate, and a cure to be effected. Papers on Health It wastes the most precious part of the blood, uses up the vital forces, and finally leaves the poor victim a most utterly ruined and loathsome object. Plain Facts for Old and Young The "elementary fire," that comes primarily by attraction, is evidently Electricity or the Electric Force, primarily developed as magnetism, and in which is perhaps the secret of life or the vital force. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry On the other hand, although it is hampered and may become abnormal, it will readily grow even in an unfavorable environment, as long as it retains its inherent vital force. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Yet it is not so long ago that public opinion in most communities was a firmly established, vital force. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post That person's vital force is low, and the organs that supply it are feeble in their action. Papers on Health To explain this mystery, philosophers of olden time supposed the existence of a certain peculiar force which is called life, or vital force, or vitality. Plain Facts for Old and Young As Parent of generated things they constitute a Demiurge, and acknowledge a vital force both in the Heavens and before the Heavens. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry One may resist to his heart's content, but without avail; vital force is again finding its way into science. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Why were the germs of disease and corruption created with the same bewildering perfection of design and the same mysterious, vital force as the good and beautiful creatures which they infest? Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Meantime we would say that in many cases where vital force is low without fever, the treatment by fomentation as described is of great value. Papers on Health A poor soil is usually porous, admitting more wholesome air and sunshine, and it is through these vital forces that trees and men grow taller and hardier. Confessions of Boyhood The Christianity about which so much discussion is elicited, is, according to him, not a perfect and divine production, but only a vital force in process of development. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Since then there has been great rejoicing in the camp of materialists who scoffed at the "ignorant" who would not as yet forsake vital force. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers I certainly faded in our twilight existence, as if there were some truth in the strange old theory that very aged people can withdraw vital force from young companions and live upon it. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls It has lost its recuperative power, the vital force of cohesion, of synthesis. The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh God has willed that love should be a vital force in the world, and you all know how I rejoice to speak of love. Paris Talks This vital force is dying out, this mighty agency has been scorned, this radiant light obscured, this impregnable stronghold abandoned, this beauteous robe discarded. The Promised Day Is Come Hence one has no cause to complain of its mysteriousness, for all other forces of nature are just as much, or if you will, just as little mysterious as vital force. At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers The emotions and instincts that come to one when thoroughly developed, with the vital forces surging within, are decidedly different from those which influence one when lacking in stamina. Vitality Supreme Mr. Martyn is, in reality, a very vital force working for the nationalization of Irish art, if not an artist himself. Irish Plays and Playwrights In place of a real explanation a simple phrase such as “vital force” was satisfactory, and signified a mystical force belonging to organisms only. Response in the Living and Non-Living He held up against the shock, thus wasting much of the vital force which absolute repose from the beginning would have spared him. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 They will be a vital force in holding the people together in their patriotic devotion, and in maintaining public tranquillity. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Are these stirring, vital forces the possession of favored classes only, or may they be obtained by anyone and everyone? Vitality Supreme The true idea of a nation implies the consciousness of a common aim, and the fraternal association and concentration of all the vital forces of the country towards the realization of that aim. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. We have seen that amongst the phenomena of response, there is no necessity for the assumption of vital force. Response in the Living and Non-Living Wasteful Forms of Nervous Activity.—There are without doubt many forms of activity that waste the vital forces of the body and lead to nervous exhaustion. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools It may not readily be translated into terms of money, or power, or vital force. A Certain Rich Man You, too, can feel these throbbing vital forces stirring your every nerve, thrilling your very soul. Vitality Supreme It was quite three o'clock, when as physiologists tell us the vital forces are at their lowest, before it could be said that the city was asleep. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Later vitalists, however, attempted no analysis of vital force; they employed it in a wholly mystical form as a convenient explanation of all sorts of vital phenomena.... Response in the Living and Non-Living I could not recover strength like my companion, who is young and who has more of vital force to expend. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Barclay and his power were substantial, palpable, and translatable into terms of money, of power, of vital force. A Certain Rich Man Now these facts were in mind when I commenced the experiments which, as I have said, led to the discovery of a method of stimulating the vital forces of the body. Vitality Supreme Much of the vital force is thus consumed, and less energy is available for physical activity. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education If this weakness is allowed to go on unchecked, the mind will become diseased, the eye-sight will be impaired, and the vital forces consumed—thereby causing partial and complete impotency. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Fire is a chemical process, it is rapid oxidation, and oxidation is a disintegrating process, while life is an integrating process, or a balance maintained between the two by what we call the vital force. The Breath of Life Then on other days, if she does appear, she is limp as a wet rag, depressed and old; there is a complete lack of all vital force. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma It accelerates the circulation, and seems to arouse the vital forces of the body, but does not require such an expenditure of energy as to prevent the brain from being exceptionally active. Vitality Supreme Now the vital forces of humanity are neither extinct nor stupefied in our time. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism The doctors, alarmed at these symptoms, ordered copious bleeding, which appeared to allay his sufferings; but they enervated the vital force of the prince, who had weakened himself by debauchery. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution But vital forces struggle against a state of repose, which to them means death. The Breath of Life He has very little vital force, and also, occasionally, delusions. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories The Erynnyes rule the fates of men, and may be said to sap the vital forces of the guilty; they cleave to them, excite and stimulate them to madness until death comes. Myth and Science An Essay Atheism is a crisis in a disease, a passing swoon over which the vital forces of nature triumph. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Not the scorching violent type that rapidly consumes the vital forces, but a low tenacious fever that baffled all opposition, and steadily gained ground, creeping upon the nerve centre, and sapping the foundations of life. Infelice If the vital principle, or vital force, is a fiction, invented to give the mind something to take hold of, we are in no worse case than we are in some other matters. The Breath of Life Religion had been lost; what should have been a vital force had become as far as the most learned were concerned a knowledge of historical events. The Evolution of Love The vital force is depleted and the nervous system is not doing efficient work. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine Here comes another force—the force of will, which directs the action of some of the vital forces, but not that of others. The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself The school that inculcates these qualities must prove a vital force in the life of the pupil; and the pupil who wins these qualities is well equipped for the work of real living. The Vitalized School Yet if there is a distinct vital force it must be correlated with physical force, it must be related causally to the rest. The Breath of Life His importance does not lie in the foundation of an order with certain regulations and a specific object, but in the fact that he was a vital force. The Evolution of Love Finally massage and Swedish movements directed to the entire back will help to disencumber the central nervous system, which is evidently very badly depleted of its vital force. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine We know nothing of vital force, or physical force, or of a revelation. The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself To take on burdens and cares is to draw upon the vital forces—to leave so much the less to cheerfulness and buoyant spirits. Practical Essays Modern biochemistry will not listen to the old notion of a vital force—that is only a metaphysical will-o'-the-wisp that leaves us floundering in the quagmire. The Breath of Life It was formerly supposed that the substances found in plants and animals, mostly complex compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, could only be produced by "vital forces." Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries It consequently depends considerably upon how we select our daily rations as to how this vital force will manifest within us. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine The only anomaly," he writes, "is our ignorance of the nature of vital force. The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself People’s characters differ because their brains do, not because there is any difference in the vital force which animates them. Fashionable Philosophy and Other Sketches Huxley cannot or does not think of a vital force distinct from all other forces, as the cause of life phenomena, as so many philosophers have done, from Aristotle down to our day. The Breath of Life I've got a story in my head—and that seems to take the vital force out of my legs!!! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books These are probably little else but attempts on the part of nature to rouse the vital force of the body into action with a view to clearing out the clogging poisons. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine As Emerson puts it, "Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing." Four American Leaders The prisoner looks to liberty as an immediate return to all his ancient energy, quickened into more vital forces by long disuse. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 If we must discard the notion of a vital force, we may, as Professor Hartog suggests, make use of the term "vital behavior." The Breath of Life Most people waste vital forces by too much talking or by over-exertion. The Harris-Ingram Experiment Everybody felt, confusedly perhaps, but very surely, that a new and vital force had arisen in English literature. Life of Charles Dickens Literature is a continual revelation to every genuine reader; a revelation of that quality which we call art, and a revelation of that mysterious vital force which we call life. Books and Culture There are two classes of critics who still waste their vital forces in a futile attempt to reform feminine dress. Americans and Others "The idea that a peculiar 'vital force' acts in the chemistry of life," says Professor Soddy, "is extinct." The Breath of Life The lily withdrawing its vital forces into the bulb, protected from the greatest extremity of rigour by seclusion in the Earth; the trance of the hibernating animal; are instances of such contrivances. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays "Serious disease to overcome, and only scant vital forces; no reasonable ground for hope." The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm The appearance of tragedy marks, therefore, those moments when men manifest, without calculation or restraint, all the power that is in them; and into no other literary form is the vital force poured so lavishly. Books and Culture Is there such a thing as vital energy, or is the so-called vital force simply a name which we have given to the peculiar manifestations of ordinary energy as shown in the substance protoplasm? The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity "Only chemical and physical agents influence the vital processes," says Professor Czapek, of the University of Prague, "and we need no longer take refuge in mysterious 'vital forces' when we want to explain these." The Breath of Life Thus God is, after all, seen to be the greatest need, and the one true enrichment of human life and character—the vital force by which alone the commonwealth can live. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa Side by side with passages of vital force and persuasive beauty there are dreary wastes of commonplace and the most arid conventionality. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The most suitable store is the floor of a dry shed, or under some protection which will prevent the loss of vital forces. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition The fact that both the doctrine of the conservation of energy and that of evolution are practically everywhere accepted indicates that the mechanical nature of vital forces is regarded as proved. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity When we say a life principle, a vital force or soul or spirit or intelligence, science turns a deaf ear. The Breath of Life Felt the vital force and strength of him ebb and weaken so that the lean, slender fingers that groped for MacNair's throat closed feebly and dropped limp to dangle impotently from his nerveless arms. The Gun-Brand It is in these central solitudes, induced by worship, that the vision is clarified, the perspective corrected, the vital forces recharged. Preaching and Paganism Now there will be a constant diminution of these vital forces. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Physical forces, chemical forces, and vital forces, explain successively the origin of worlds, protoplasm, and organisms. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity Nearly all the later biologists or biological philosophers are as shy of the term "vital force," and even of the word "vitality," as they are of the words "soul," "spirit," "intelligence," when discussing natural phenomena. The Breath of Life In 1884, at the same point, it measures fourteen feet one inch; a gain so slight that the rings of annual growth must be difficult to trace—an evidence of waning vital force. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 An eagle, broken-winged and drooping in a cage, he sat within the goat-herd's hut and gloomed upon his lot, and cursed the vital force within that would not let him die. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware There is only a certain amount of the vital force for parents or children to use in this business of education, and one must choose what It shall be used for. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 And that he lived at all was probably due to some great original vital force in his organization, and also to the purity of his native air, of which at least he got a plenty. Ishmael Or, In the Depths The terms "vitality," "vital force," have long been in use, and it is not easy to convince one's self that they stand for no reality. The Breath of Life As for Hannah Hennessy—she had been too ill to share in the active work of the campaign, but her influence was everywhere—a vital force, a continual inspiration. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers "An eagle, broken-winged and drooping in a cage, he gloomed upon his lot and cursed the vital force within that would not let him die." The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware If the player is accustomed to husband his vital force during the daily routine of practise, he can play a long, exacting program in public without weariness. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers It demonstrated that the fourth generation of the children born of intermarrying mulattoes were invariably sterile or woefully lacking in vital force. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel We may forego the convenient term "vital force." The Breath of Life And it is this power of religious fanaticism which not alone created the Empire, but has held it together long after its vital forces have departed. The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 22, April 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives. Disease and Its Causes Some of the pianists now before the public do this, and it always makes me sorry for them, for I know what a needless waste of energy and vital force it is. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers While this intermingling was impairing the vital force of our race and exterminating it, it was having no such effect on the white race for the following reason. Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel Professor Moore, of Liverpool University, as I have already pointed out while discussing the term "vital force," invents a new phrase, "biotic energy," to explain the same phenomena. The Breath of Life He expects an orator not merely to expound facts, but to stimulate the vital forces of his audience. The Open Secret of Ireland All the experiments have for their object the storing in the pills of immortality the elements necessary for the development of the vital force and for the constitution of a new spiritual and super-humanized being. Myths and Legends of China His consciousness of guilt, his fear of exposure, the threatened loss of his fortune, and the apprehension of a retribution of disgrace were sapping his vital forces, minute by minute. Sevenoaks I took childish pleasure in watching my Indian boyhood go, and vital force mounting every hour. Lazarre Has this "ultimate molecule of life" any more scientific or philosophical validity than the old conception of a vital force? The Breath of Life The explorer develops amazing powers of endurance; the inventor in the ecstasy of creation draws on deep vital forces, and may carry on for long periods without sleep or food. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day But the next moment, and as if weakened by an instantaneous failure of vital forces, he would helplessly turn to his wife as though she could give him strength. The Colossus A Novel And yet your religion," he continued gently, "hasn't proved much of a vital force in your life, has it? Tell England A Study in a Generation We do strangely expand and contract in vital force and reach of vision. Lazarre Vital activities, if we must shun the term "vital force," do both. The Breath of Life Of what value is the application of therapeutics if the human economy is so lowered in its vital forces that dissolution is inevitable? Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Countless numbers of little ones are injured by enforced premature development, thereby diverting the vital forces to the development of the brain which should be devoted to the development of the body. Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration All the vital forces of the world were running down. The Silent Places A Christian who faces the modem world must also be conscious of a present spiritual kinship with his Jewish neighbours to whom their religious heritage is still a vital force. The Grey Book Call this unknown factor "vital force," as has so long been done, or name it "biotic energy," as Professor Moore has lately done, and the mystery remains the same. The Breath of Life Her vital force became depleted, her step grew feeble, the light died out of her eyes, she drooped and crept feebly about her room. The Redemption of David Corson Each man had his genius, from whom his living power and vital force came. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology It did not seem possible that he could feel the need for food, for rest, that ever his vital forces could wane. The Silent Places The government of burghers in a Grand Council, with a Senate of forty, and a Gonfalonier for life, had not grown up gradually and absorbed into itself the vital forces of the commonwealth. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series But the vital forces transcend all our mathematics; we cannot anticipate their behavior. The Breath of Life The Crest-Wave was coming to Italy; whose vital forces, all centrifugal before, must now be made to turn and flow towards the center. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 If Neo-Platonism had not had for its antagonist the vital force of Christianity, it might have established itself as a permanent form of religion in the Roman Empire, as Tao-ism has in China. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology This constituted an additional slight but constant drain on their vital forces. The Silent Places It was easy to see that she was the dominant and vital force in the household. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage In life the reverse is true; the vital forces build up varied and picturesque forms which when pulled down are shapeless and displeasing. The Breath of Life The mythical ideas long entertained of the imponderable substances and vital forces peculiar to each mode of organization, have complicated our views generally, and shed an uncertain light on the path we ought to pursue. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 They were great by the soul, and their vital force is as indestructible as the soul. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays When one fell, he lay huddled, unable at once to rally his vital forces to attempt the exertion of regaining his feet. The Silent Places Mightily he draws the whole nation to follow in his footsteps, and becomes its hero, its pattern; the vital force of millions appears summed up in one man. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Why may we not think of life as a vital force traveling through matter and lifting up into organic life waves in the same way? The Breath of Life Figurative representations; mythical conception of imponderable matters, and the peculiar vital forces in every organism. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 There might have been a relapse, a failure of vital force. The Doctor's Dilemma The sun, the air, and the earth are constantly abstracting from us our vital forces. Thrift But the vital force is exclusively concerned with the construction of matter. Five Years of Theosophy He spared neither his subordinates nor, least of all, Edwin Stanton, and spendthrift of vital force and energy went his way, one of the great war ministers like Carnot and Pitt. Westways Bacteria must always multiply and exist at the expense of the body which they infest, and the more weakened the vital forces become, the more favorable is the soil for their development. Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 I lost life," continued Julius, without noting Lefevre's remark,—"I lost life,—vital force, nervous ether, electricity, whatever you choose to call it,—at an enormous rate, but I as quickly replenished my loss. Master of His Fate Such an enthusiasm, communicated to those about him, rendered him a vital force in every company where works of creative genius could be a theme of conversation. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature The ordinary life of travel and society lost all hold upon her; she passed through it in a mood of weariness and distaste that was in itself a danger to vital force. Lady Rose's Daughter |
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