appetency

• This is the reason why beauty is to all creatures an object of appetency, of desire and of love Trinity There is a mystery full of deep instruction, a mystery whose divine obscurities surpass all the light whose splendors dazzle us by their supernatural clarity, and which, as a great saint once said, radiates splendid beams and floods with the glory of its fires those spirits who are blind with the blindness of holiness. —  Delsarte System of Oratory
• The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation. —  Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
• It is that sense of life-preserving and life-enhancing appetency which is the conscious accompaniment of struggle. —  The Approach to Philosophy
• Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature. —  The Approach to Philosophy
• Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world. —  The Approach to Philosophy

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