world process
Americannoun
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change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
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Hegelianism. change, regarded as the temporal expression and fulfillment of the absolute idea.
Example Sentences
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Hence the world process, and the intelligent purpose we fancy we detect in it must be illusory....
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Cohen, Chapman
As there is no ultimate beginning in time of this world process, so there is no time at which any person first began his actions or experiences.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
The most remarkable feature of this literature is its elaborate doctrine of evolution and emanation from the Deity, the world process being conceived in the usual Hindu fashion as an alternation of production and destruction.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
To bring about this replunge into Nirvana is the goal of the world process.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
No necessity—no anangké—darling!—either in the world process, or the mind of God, that you and I should sit here to-day, heart to heart!
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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