world spirit

He must be every one of the characters to whom he addresses himself—a genteel Goethe or Shakspeare, a fashionable world-spirit.

A modern nation had arisen out of the old world-state and world-spirit.

But the motive power of the world spirit is so infinite, that it is not satisfied until it has everything.

But we cannot gain a world-spirit by a sudden destruction of our patriotism.

Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the "world-spirit."