conatus
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In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
And as the human form is made up of all the things there are in man, it follows that love or the will is in a continual conatus and effort to form all these.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
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