conatus

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This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

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 Bode, Boyd H.

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