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From highest to lowest, from the head teacher of the school to the youngest child in the bottom class, all the teachers and all the children are subjected to the pressure of this quasi-physical force.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

Sacrifice was believed to exert an influence on the deity which is quasi-physical, and in sacrificial feasts God and worshipper are in mysterious union.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various

He is the victim of a quasi-physical compulsion.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

At the same time, the elements are more and more completely identified with the body and blood of Christ, and the nature of the presence of Christ is conceived under quasi-physical categories.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

The plain truth is that legalism is precluded, by its own first principles from appealing to any motive higher than that instinctive desire for pleasure which has as its counterpart a quasi-physical fear of pain.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond