reagency

“Will is the sum of physical forces necessary for self-preservation, is reagency against the formidable rivalry of every other organization.”

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864

“In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.”

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

“Epictetus only, that would suffer under this law of Christianity viewed in its reagency, but also Abraham, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hezekiah.”

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

“But, surely, as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass.”

Memorials and Other Papers — Complete

“In _him_, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency, might best be studied.”

Biographical Essays