world spirit

How to use world spirit in a sentence

• He must be every one of the characters to whom he addresses himself—a genteel Goethe or Shakspeare, a fashionable world-spirit.

  The Fitz-Boodle Papers | William Makepeace Thackeray

• A modern nation had arisen out of the old world-state and world-spirit.

  The History of England | T.F. Tout

• But the motive power of the world spirit is so infinite, that it is not satisfied until it has everything.

  The Positive Outcome of Philosophy | Joseph Dietzgen

• But we cannot gain a world-spirit by a sudden destruction of our patriotism.

  Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association | Intercollegiate Peace Association

• Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the "world-spirit."

  Democracy and Education | John Dewey