world spirit
Example Sentences
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The great world spirit paid no more attention to the prone and weeping woman than to the motes, that were swimming gaily in the sunbeams.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
The fundamental idea from which Philo starts is a Platonic one; the dualism of God and the world, spirit and matter.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
They consider that security for industry and freedom for the individual can best be preserved in Ireland by the maintenance of the Union, and that the world spirit is with the great empires.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
There is no other art, perhaps, by which the child so intimately links the world spirit with his own spirit.
From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
To him far more than to any contemporary is it due that self-abnegation, self-identification with the world spirit, was made the basis of universal education.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
