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
It may be said that Galen expresses, in these passages, the Platonic dogma of an anima mundi.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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 Edward Dowden
Yes, the mind which is the anima mundi, the principle, of all things.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Its gods were the Epicurean deities who dwell aloof and careless of men; or the supreme Reason and Necessity of the Stoics, the anima mundi, of which human souls are fleeting and fragmentary images.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
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