vis vitalis

In his “Cellular Pathologie,”76 and in an essay on “The Old Vitalism and the New,”77 he puts in a word for a vis vitalis.

In the simplest processes of growth and nutrition the vis vitalis plays its vital rôle.

Railway securities have advanced a little despite the repressive effect of Republican policy, have beaten up somewhat against the adverse winds, impelled by speculators whose vis vitalis was the crops of the country—the great bulk of which were produced by men who voted for Bryan.

Is God continually giving out this "influence," this life-force, this vis vitalis, to the people of this planet, and with each death withdrawing a portion thereof and either casting it into the waste-basket of Perdition or cording it up, like back- number newspapers, in the New Jerusalem, never to be again employed?