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Address titled Vitalism
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RBSC-ARC-1722-1-31
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1911 (Creation)
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21 pages
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(1860-1936)
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MS of an address entitled Vitalism, presented to the Manchester
University Pathological Society, October 11, 1911. Haldane summarizes his position thus:
a. Biology has made no progress whatever in the direction of a physicochemical theory of life.
b. From the nature of the facts to be explained in connection with life a physico-chemical explanation of them is inconceivable.
c. The conception of the living organism as such is the root-conception on which alone biology as a science can be based. This conception is not reducible to anything simpler, and apart from it the facts of biology are a mere chaos.