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
Browning's life was never that of a recluse who finds in nature and communion with the anima mundi a counterpoise to the attractions of human society.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
And nothing can be more beautiful than a childlike faith in the Great Being who is above all worlds, in the anima mundi.
From The Dweller on the Threshold by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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 De Quincey, Thomas
From Armaiti must be carefully distinguished the geus urva, or "soul of the earth"—a being who nearly resembles the "anima mundi" of the Greek and Roman philosophers.
