| 单词 | earth soul |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth soul earth soul n. [with sense (a) compare earlier world-soul n. at world n. Compounds 8] (a) the soul of the earth, the animating principle of the universe (cf. anima mundi n.); (b) the soul of a human or earth-dweller. ΚΠ 1846 Amer. Whig Rev. Feb. 130/2 This lower, or Earth Soul is likewise creative. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 149 The earth-soul Freedom, that only Lives, and that only is God. 1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism iv. 136 Speculations like Fechner's, of an Earth-soul, of wider spans of consciousness enveloping narrower ones throughout the cosmos, are..philosophically quite in order. 1948 C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–7 64 You might well surmise They are earth-souls. 2000 W. Wachhorst Dream of Spaceflight i. 15 The wild-minded apriorist [sc. Johannes Kepler] whose speculations had included an Earth soul and radiations from the planets that shaped human lives. < as lemmas |
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