From such considerations as this the deep thinkers of old times Posited the generating of a world-system by the interaction of what they named Animus Dei, the Active principle, and Anima Mundi, or Soul of the Universe, the Passive principle-the one Personal, and the other Impersonal; and by the hypothesis of the case the only mode of activity possible to Anima Mundi is response to Animus Dei.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
But the neo-Fichteans are concerned to show that the nature so Posited, or the World of Description, is the realm of mechanical science, and that the entire system of mathematical and physical truth is therefore morally necessary.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
But any attempt to establish this position would involve a disregard of the doctrine that knowledge is relative; and to do this, it is needless to say, would be to destroy the basis of the argument whereby the Absolute Being of Cosmism was Posited.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes