conatus
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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 Ager, John
It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire.
From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
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 Swedenborg, Emanuel
The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
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 Ager, John
