To say that life evolves because of an elan vital is on a par with saying that a locomotive runs because of an elan locomotif.
Julian Huxley, Darwinism To-Day
A nod to Molière’s satirical line which coined the ‘dormitive fallacy’:
Why Opium produces sleep: … Because there is in it a dormitive power.
(Le Malade Imaginere (1673), Act III, sc. iii)
Julian Huxley, Darwinism To-Day
A nod to Molière’s satirical line which coined the ‘dormitive fallacy’:
(Le Malade Imaginere (1673), Act III, sc. iii)