world spirit
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The world spirit is moulting, and we're all sick together.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
The great world spirit paid no more attention to the prone and weeping woman than to the motes, that were swimming gaily in the sunbeams.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
There is no other art, perhaps, by which the child so intimately links the world spirit with his own spirit.
From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
Is it not at least equally reasonable to assume that there are many spirits, or many shapes taken by the superpersonal world spirit, with which the soul can get into touch?
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
The fundamental idea from which Philo starts is a Platonic one; the dualism of God and the world, spirit and matter.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan
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