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world spirit
noun as in animating force of world
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He must be every one of the characters to whom he addresses himself—a genteel Goethe or Shakspeare, a fashionable world-spirit.
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A modern nation had arisen out of the old world-state and world-spirit.
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But the motive power of the world spirit is so infinite, that it is not satisfied until it has everything.
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But we cannot gain a world-spirit by a sudden destruction of our patriotism.
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Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the "world-spirit."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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