conatus
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And since good and evil are opposites, there is an intermediate, and in it an equilibrium, in which evil acts against good; but as it does not prevail, it stops in a conatus.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
In the animals this conatus takes the form of appetite, in man of desire, which is “appetite with the consciousness of it.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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
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
