> ... "vitalism " was a widely held belief, for a long period of time, that
> something in air had the ability, SPONTANEOUSLY to give rse to living
> things. "
I don't think 'vitalism' has anything to do with the origins of
living things, spontaneously or otherwise. It's just the opposite
of biological mechanism. It is the view that living things have
something special about them.
-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com