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.
So he gives us this point-by-point analysis of a variety of monistic theories, including Buddhism and then vitalists like Bergson, even our friend Driesch.
So we may still expand our understanding what is incorporated in the category of matter that will eventually incorporate such magical things that the vitalists have noticed, like life.