It is the mind in which this historical principle, this motivity which is not reason, is brought in contact with the opposing and controlling element as it had not been before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

Thinking and motivity the primary ideas peculiar to spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

As the economic attraction of petroleum fuels disappears, their motivity - the power to cause motion - is being sought from other sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

Is it connected with the phenomena of exteriorization of sensitivity or motivity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference

They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

Here also seemed to be an unconscious corroboration of Albert de Rochas's experiments in the "externalization of motivity," as he calls it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow World] Reference

It carries in its hand, gathered into the simplicity of the causes that are not many, the secret of all motivity, the secret of all practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

At present we must confine ourselves to saying that soul is the source of these phenomena and is characterized by them, viz. by the powers of self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and motivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON THE SOUL] Reference

The history of human nature is glorious, even in its degeneracy, with the exhibition of this larger, nobler form of humanity asserting itself, triumphing over the intensities of the narrower motivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

Enforcements are wholly out of place, till such time as they are sunk away from right into the lower ranges of motivity, where the smart of justice and its penal sanctions becomes fit argument for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

The question is, as to whether this is a nature capable of pursuing that end for its own sake, without respect to its pivate and merely selfish recompence; whether it is one which has any such means of egress from its particular self, any such means of coming out of its private and exclusive motivity, that it can persevere in its care of the Common.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

And if we consider the active power of moving, or, as I may call it, motivity, it is much clearer in spirit than body; since two bodies, placed by one another at rest, will never afford us the idea of a power in the one to move the other, but by a borrowed motion: whereas the mind every day affords us ideas of an active power of moving of bodies; and therefore it is worth our consideration, whether active power be not the proper attribute of spirits, and passive power of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

This is the prime motivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasia of the Unconscious] Reference

And if we coniider the adbive power of moving, or, as I may call it, motivity, it is much clearer in fpirit than body; fince two bodies, placed by one another at reft, will never afford us the idea of a power in the one to move the other, but by a bor - rowed motion: whtreas the mind, every day, affords us ideas of an adive power of moving of bodies; and therefore it is worth our tonfideration, whether adive power be not the proper attribute of fpirits, and paf - five power of matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference

We should not need, perhaps, the aid of the explanations already quoted, to show us that the author does not confess this custom of his for the sake of commending it to the sense or judgment of the reader, -- who sees it here for the first time it may be put into words or put on paper, who looks at it here, perhaps, for the first time objectively, from the critical stand-point which the review of another's confession creates; and though it may have been latent in the dim consciousness of his own experience, or practically developed, finds it now for the first time, collected from the phenomena of the blind, instinctive, human motivity, and put down on the page of science, as a principle in nature, in human nature also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference