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that Bergson's élan vital is no better an explanation of life than is explaining the operation of a railway engine by its élan locomotif ("locomotive driving force"). The same alleged epistemological fallacy is parodied in Molière's Le Malade imaginaire, in which the quack doctor explains why opium causes sleep: "Because of its soporific power." However, Huxley

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