The conception of the self-movement of matter is treated as quite fundamental:
A living organism is something that arose out of inorganic matter. In it there is no "vital force." If we subject it to purely external analysis into its elements we shall fud nothing processes are connected in the organism by a new form of movement, and it is in this that the quality of the living thing les The new in a living organism, not being attributable to physics or chemistry, arises as a Fesult of the new synthesis, of the But to talk ofa "new form of movement" explains precisely nothing. It is simply the despised "vital force" redressed: in another form, Apparently, however, the dialectic materialists believe that this "new form of movement" which connotes life was inherent in the self-movement of the primitive inorganic matter of ithe nebula. This seem to be a rather crude form of pantheism.
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