
What is the Vital Principle, What Does It Mean?
July 1, 2021The principle that makes life come true.
vitalists; They believed that carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus combined under the influence of this vital principle to form living matter. This belief in a vital principle, which they themselves do not know and cannot say, was destroyed in 1828 when the chemist F. Wöhler made an organic substance (urea) from inorganic materials.