conatus
Example Sentences
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The first production from these earthy matters, while they were still new and in their simple state, was production of seed; the first conatus therein could not be any other.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
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
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
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 attraction, a kind of conatus accedendi, is the crown, according to the eighteenth century, of the series of secondary causes.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
