world spirit
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To him far more than to any contemporary is it due that self-abnegation, self-identification with the world spirit, was made the basis of universal education.
From The World Set Free by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The world spirit is moulting, and we're all sick together.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by Todhunter, John
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 Washburne, Marion Foster
The world spirit was—not creeping in, but—walking boldly into the life of the Church.
From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
They consider that security for industry and freedom for the individual can best be preserved in Ireland by the maintenance of the Union, and that the world spirit is with the great empires.
From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William
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