world spirit

noun

1. (often initial capital letters) God.
2. world soul.

Example Sentences

He must be every one of the characters to whom he addresses himself—a genteel Goethe or Shakspeare, a fashionable world-spirit.

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A modern nation had arisen out of the old world-state and world-spirit.

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But the motive power of the world spirit is so infinite, that it is not satisfied until it has everything.

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But we cannot gain a world-spirit by a sudden destruction of our patriotism.

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Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the "world-spirit."

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