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‖ anima mundi|ˌænɪmə ˈmʌndaɪ|
[med.L. (Abelard), = ‘soul of the world’; app. formed to render Gr. ψυχὴ τοῦ κόσµου. Cf. world-soul, -spirit.]
The soul of the world; a power or spirit supposed to be diffused throughout the material universe, organizing and giving form to the whole and to all its parts, and regularizing the motions and alterations of the parts.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 561 All the Perfection of a Mundane Soul, may perhaps be attributed to God in some sense, and be [printed he] called, Quasi Anima Mundi, As it were the Soul thereof. 1698J. Locke 3rd Let. to Stillingfleet in Wks. (1823) IV. 363 There might be added other senses, wherein the word ϕύσις may be found, made use of by the Greeks..; as particularly Aristotle, if I mistake not, uses it for a plastic power, or a kind of anima mundi, presiding over the material world, and producing the order and regularity of motions, formations, and generations in it. a1748Watts Improvement of Mind ii. v. §2 in Wks. (1753) V. 340 Take a Platonist, who believes an anima mundi, a universal soul of the world to pervade all bodies, to act in and by them according to their nature, and indeed to give them their nature and their special powers. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 346, I find the notion of some sort of anima mundi thinking in all of us to be a more promising hypothesis. 1948Mind LVII. 240 Especially the belief in an anima mundi and in the comprehensive analogy between man and the universe are present in Herbert's discussion. 1957G. Boas Dominant Themes of Mod. Philos. viii. 280 This was not the first time that a correlation between the anima mundi and the Holy Spirit had been made; indeed Abelard had been condemned at the Council of Sens in 1140 for identifying the two. 1958Spectator 17 Jan. 80/3 His [sc. Wordsworth's] belief in an anima mundi was encouraged by ideas taken from Cambridge authorities such as Newton himself. |