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vital 1. essential to maintain life 2. of, relating to, having, or displaying life 3. a. the bodily organs, such as the brain, liver, heart, lungs, etc., that are necessary to maintain life b. the organs of reproduction, esp the male genitals
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| We may then distinguish "vital" from mechanical movements by the fact that vital movements depend for their causation upon the special properties of the nervous system, while mechanical movements depend only upon the properties which animal bodies share with matter in general. Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity. |
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