anima mundi
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Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
I may mean a mere anima mundi; or an initial principle which once was in action and now is not; or collective humanity.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
Yes, the mind which is the anima mundi, the principle, of all things.
From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis
And man was to him the great mystery, because man contained surely something that belonged to, that was lent to, man, as it were, by another, the mind beyond, the anima mundi.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Browning's life was never that of a recluse who finds in nature and communion with the anima mundi a counterpoise to the attractions of human society.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
