world spirit
Example Sentences
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The world spirit is moulting, and we're all sick together.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by Todhunter, John
They consider that security for industry and freedom for the individual can best be preserved in Ireland by the maintenance of the Union, and that the world spirit is with the great empires.
From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William
To him far more than to any contemporary is it due that self-abnegation, self-identification with the world spirit, was made the basis of universal education.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Is it not at least equally reasonable to assume that there are many spirits, or many shapes taken by the superpersonal world spirit, with which the soul can get into touch?
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
The great world spirit paid no more attention to the prone and weeping woman than to the motes, that were swimming gaily in the sunbeams.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Goss, Charles Frederic
