Career
He was a Scottish physician and writer He had qualified in medicine in Aberdeen in 1897 and specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis. Among his works are "Manitoba’s Record in the Rocks" (My Magazine, May 1921) The Art of Keeping Well Cassell & Company
1918/The Vegetarian Society and ary Consequences of War (cited below).
He averred that: "Nature has wisely arranged that men should be attracted (to women) by characteristics that imply a superior capacity for motherhood. (thus)..every war will do something to set up evolutionary tendencies opposite to its own, brutal, truculent, anti-social spirit" Macfie was a critic of Darwinism and developed his own non-Darwinian evolution theory which was a form of neovitalism.
Macfie was also a panpsychist as he believed mind was to be found in all matter. MacFie had dedicated one of his books and a poem to the naturalist J. Arthur Thomson in honor of his efforts to promote a neovitalist biology.
