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Definition of Life principle
1. Noun. A hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed.
Generic synonyms: Causal Agency, Causal Agent, Cause
Specialized synonyms: Spirit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Principle
Literary usage of Life principle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"But if the human soul is to be regarded as the life-principle of the body, ...
If the soul as the life-principle comes immediately from God by an express ..."
2. Spiritual Magazine (1871)
"Now we have gained one point, we advance to another— what has become of this
life-principle ? Here again we would earnestly call the attention of every true ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"The life-principle is found in world-creative power. ... This life-principle must
express purpose, an inherent purpose of development. ..."
4. The Conquest of Fear by Basil King (1921)
"CHAPTER II THE LIFE-PRINCIPLE AND GOD IT is obvious that one could not dwell much
on the power of the life-principle without coming sooner or later to the ..."
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