Hans Driesch, the arch twentieth-century vitalist, defined vitalism in 1914 as "the theory of the autonomy of the process of life," and in certain respects he was right.

二十世纪主要活力论者汉斯•德里，1914将活力论定义为“关于生命进程自治理论”。某些方面他对。

If we look we may find that direction and goals can emerge in biological evolution from a mob of directionless and goal-less parts, without invoking vitalistic or supernatural explanations.

如果我们仔细回顾，我们可能会发现，生物进化中呈现方向和目标可能正产生于一大团无目和无方向组成部分之中，而无需援引活力论或者其他什么超自然解释。