vital principle in English
source of life, life force
Use "vital principle" in a sentence
1. The Songhua River system is the vital principle to the economy of Heilongjiang province.
2. Animism definition is - a doctrine that the vital principle of organic development is immaterial spirit.
3. Of Latin animus "the rational soul; life; the mental powers, intelligence" (see animus).For earlier use in the sense "soul, vital principle," see Anima mundi.
4. 1684, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of Religion So that small and little vital Principle of the Fear of God doth gradually and yet suddenly Assimulate the actions of our life flowing from another Principle 1857, Andrew Jackson Davis, The great harmonia: Volume 4 (page 54) You will remember the exact analogy — that trees grow by