animality

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Animality and vanity are strong in them, but they have little steady energy and no self-control.

From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)

"Animality" is the starting-point; "humanity," its opposite, is the goal of development.

From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Zenker, Ernst Viktor

Animality destroys all manhood, and lowers to the slush and ooze of degradation every one given over to its control.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

Sometimes God holds her still in sight,—a figure to whose feet creep Forms and Species of Animality to be shown their way.

From Seraphita by Balzac, Honoré de

Sokrates, for instance, consisted of Existence, plus Animality, plus Humanity, plus Sokraticity.

From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John