appetency
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There is such a thing in the human mind as unrealized truth, both intellectual and spiritual; the inarticulate muttering of an obscurely felt sentiment; a vague appetency for something we are not distinctly conscious of.
From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers
Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
The third sort, or Perception regulated by animal appetency, is that in which the brain directs from within, such movements of the muscular fibres, as are requisite for the execution of any purpose.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
