vital force

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We have all a certain vitalforce, which seeks expression in creation.
It was helpful to see vitalforce as a gendered entity, in order better to explain genius and giftedness.
Qi is our vitalforce or spiritual energy; the concept points to a hylozoistic unity of matter, spirit, and energy.
Rewording, 'vitalforce ' is excessive free energy that generates in a living organism and maintains its existence.
Instead, he called for a return to the belief in the strength of population numbers as the vitalforce (quwwa hayawiyya) of the nation.
His aim was to deliver an account of the life of animal tissue - a lawful account that did not take recourse in a vitalforce.
Women's vitalforce can, and generally does, pour itself into motherhood.
However, we bleed democratic experimentalism of its vitalforce when we treat a passive and prostrate mapping of our practices as the sole alternative to a metaphysical super-science.
The river, in particular, was a vitalforce, and the ways in which it was controlled reveal much about the articulation of political power in the city and its hinterland.
In its broadest sense the term 'mesmerism' referred to a spectrum of phenomena, all apparently derived from the supposed vitalforce or influence.
Genius was understood through the gendered metaphors of vitalforce.
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