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Life principle   /laɪf prˈɪnsəpəl/   Listen
Life principle

noun
1.
A hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed.  Synonym: vital principle.





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"Life principle" Quotes from Famous Books



... freaks, and I did not breed them. They are nature's parentless products whose basic elements were brought together in this laboratory, and, by a scientific reproduction of the functions of creation, endowed with the life principle, which is merely mind-electrons." He smoothed his long tuft of hair nervously. "Would you like to see how life springs from a wedding of ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... whom my thought now turns. I mean our Lord Jesus Christ. And let the life principle, the heart principle, the love principle be one and the same or not, it is he who says of men: "By their fruits shall ye KNOW them;" not doubtfully, but surely. The life record of every man, written ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline


Words linked to "Life principle" :   causal agent, spirit, causal agency, cause


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