This sentence is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the development of someone's character or personality. For example: "John's years at college built his confidence and encouraged the development of spirit.
The Idea, or Spirit, for Hegel must realize itself by being incarnated in the world in inorganic, animal, and vegetable life because they obey natural laws, and in human history because "World history in general is the development of Spirit in Time, just as Nature is the development of the Idea in Space".
Hegel's great men, or world-historical individuals, such as Alexander the Great and Napoleon, are similarly moved only by ambition, but the result of their actions furthers the development of Spirit in spreading Greek culture and a rational code of law.
With his idea of the development of spirit in history, Hegel is seen as literalising a way of talking about different cultures in terms of their spirits, of constructing a developmental sequence of epochs typical of nineteenth-century ideas of linear historical progress, and then enveloping this story of human progress in terms of one about the developing self-conscious of the cosmos-God itself.
Hegel, who conceived of history as the dialectical self-development of "spirit".
He urges them in the development of the spirit, That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality — your soul, if you will — is as bright and shining as any that has ever been.
There is something about the King holiday that creates an arrested development of the spirit, leading us in a direction that is antithetical to the project for which King gave his life.
In the 1909 Blue Print, the society described its purpose as follows: "[The ANAK Society] is composed of men from the Senior Class of Georgia Tech who have shown themselves zealous in the development of college spirit.
MC first author of the CONSORT-PRO Extension and leading the development of the SPIRIT-PRO extension.
MC and MK co-chair and RMB and DC are members of the International Society for Quality of Life Research Best Practices for PROs in Trials Taskforce and are involved in the development of the SPIRIT-PRO extension.
The period between about 1772 and 1825, though immensely important in the development of the Hungarian spirit, produced few writers of the first rank.
But most of all it was the general spirit of humanism critical, ebullient, precise, focused on the physical world, and passionate in its quest for results that fostered the development of the scientific spirit in social studies and natural philosophy.
