anima mundi
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Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
And man was to him the great mystery, because man contained surely something that belonged to, that was lent to, man, as it were, by another, the mind beyond, the anima mundi.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Smythe Hichens
I may mean a mere anima mundi; or an initial principle which once was in action and now is not; or collective humanity.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
He must not surrender himself to the first impulse, else he is betrayed into a mere anima mundi; he must not surrender himself to the second, else he is betrayed into something merely human.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Although absolutely in motion, they are relatively at rest; or we may conceive of them as resting, while the space in which they are contained, or the whole anima mundi, revolves.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
