Conway rejected mechanistic motion by affirming the whole creation is vitally alive.

Evidence

Since the whole of creation was alive, every motion within it was vital—“a motion of life” or “vital virtue.” All bodies had “not only quantity and figure, but life also.” They were “not only locally and mechanically but vitally movable” and could “receive and transmit vital action.” Old and New Testament texts supported her view that “all things have life, and do really live in some degree or measure.” — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 966

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off the ch60-61 thread that Conway held nature is a living body; connects to the ecofeminist multispecies strand of vitalism as restraint on exploitation. — connects to: Conway held nature is a living body far more sublime than a machine — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 957; Conway rejected monistic materialism because it flattened the distinction between God and creation. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 966
• DEFINE: Defines the vitalist counterposition to mechanical motion that grounds the book’s ecofeminist alternative.

Broader Connections

• Conway rejected monistic materialism because it flattened the distinction between God and creation. #expands (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 966