These prophets relied upon the presence of a certain motivity, from which a definite response could be evoked by an appeal which they were peculiarly able to make; but though "they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation," there was none that regarded.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
Here also seemed to be an unconscious corroboration of Albert de Rochas's experiments in the "externalization of motivity," as he calls it.
"The Shadow World"
Hamlin Garland