Thus the evoluffon of social organization is from the simple and definite toward the complex and variable; or from the involuntary to the voluntary; or from the environment-shaped to the environment-shaping; or from the biotic to the demotic.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
His analysis of the processes of molecular physics as they appear in the organism leads him to recognize and to name a new force, or a new manifestation of force, which he hesitates to call vital, because of the associations of this term with a prescientific age, but which he calls "biotic energy."
"The Breath of Life"
John Burroughs
biotic energy is peculiar to living bodies, and there are precisely the same criteria for its existence, says Professor Moore, as for the existence of any one of the inorganic energy types, viz.
"The Breath of Life"
John Burroughs