conatus
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And since good and evil are opposites, there is an intermediate, and in it an equilibrium, in which evil acts against good; but as it does not prevail, it stops in a conatus.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
This desire is the perpetual conatus of that love, from which flow all its effects.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Emanuel Swedenborg
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
It further follows that in all these there is an inmost conatus, the conatus to perform use to the human race.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
He ignored that inner drive which Spinoza called the conatus; or the seeds of Paracelsus or van Helmont; or the persistence over a time course of any "essence" or "form."
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
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