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Romantic doctors would soar off into mysticism, ignoring the brain altogether, while medical mechanists would dismiss the mind and try to transform conscious intention and selfhood into the work of gears and pulleys.

Darwin’s theory went into eclipse at the turn of the century, Bernard’s vitalism died out altogether, but du Bois-Reymond’s mechanist approach laid the foundation of modern biology.

Where are the stage mechanists who assisted George Conquest, that unique representative of sprites and gnomes, who achieved success by "leaps and bounds?"

M. Maelzel, the mechanist, inventor of the musical metronome, was one of Beethoven's warmest friends and adherents.

But while he was technically an abstract Monist, he was practically a "mechanist," believing that it was feasible to redescribe all evolution in terms of mechanical categories.