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
Did he mean that the Logos was the anima mundi?
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
Wordsworth was the fellow who hit upon the idea of the anima mundi.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
The mystics are much inclined to adopt, in a modified form, the old notion of an anima mundi.
From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph
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 Bache, Franklin
