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THE old subject of the nature of the vital force or vitality having lately been under discussion, allow me to remind some of your readers that Coleridge did not hesitate to enforce his opinion that it came into the domain of the scientific inquirer, and appertained to the other forces in nature. I cannot express an opinion on his theories of the nature of life, but his holding them in any tangible form has had great weight with some persons, in consequence of his being an orthodox Christian, belonging to what is called the religious world, yet he considered that the nature of life was open to investigation like any other natural phenomenon.
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WILKS, S. Coleridge's Theory of Life. Nature 68, 102 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068102a0
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