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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



... had brought brains to his aid. He had reared dragons from the egg, in his laboratory, he had watched over them like a mother, and patiently studied them and experimented upon them while they grew. Thus he had found out that fire was the life principle of a dragon; put out the dragon's fires and it could make steam no longer, and must die. He could not put out a fire with a spear, therefore he invented the extinguisher. The dragon being dead, the emperor fell on the hero's neck ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the stamens or male organs may reside in one plant, and the ovary and pistil or female organs may reside in another. In that case, the two plants are required to make one structurally complete organization. Each is but half a plant, an incomplete individual by itself. The life principle of each must be united to that of the other; the twain must be indeed one flesh before the organization is either structurally ...
— Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, - 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, And January 25, 1887 • Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.



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



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