supersensible
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The best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is."
From Time Magazine Archive
This gives the main characteristic of Homeric Hades; it is the supersensible world, outside of Space and Time; or, rather with its own Space and Time, since it is still an image.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
The world of reality is transcended, marvelous shapes sweep into view, Polyphemus, Circe, the Sirens, even the supersensible realm of Hades—all of which, however, must await a special exposition.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Whether there be a spiritual universe answering to our conception, a Being justifying reason's idea of supreme unity, a soul that can exist in an eternal, supersensible world, are questions the philosopher declined to discuss.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
Then, it is incomprehensible how the sensible can beget the supersensible.
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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