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I tried to tell her all that had happened, all that I’d come to understand: the meaningless objectness of the world, the universal bruteness.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He seemed to have become in a measure aware of the bruteness of the life he had hitherto led: he must have had a glimpse of something better.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

The immobility, or bruteness, of Nature is the absence of spirit.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The immobility or bruteness of nature, is the absence of spirit; to pure spirit, it is fluid, it is volatile, it is obedient.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo