conatus
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Here, however, I choose to confirm them only by the conatus, forces and motions in dead and in living subjects.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
The first production from these earthy matters, while they were still new and in their simple state, was production of seed; the first conatus therein could not be any other.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
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 Thomas De Quincey
Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
Dialectic developments of the notion of self-preservation, of the conatus essendi, often ignore all the important facts of the actual process.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
