A typical 17th-century view follows: [May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated, or, if beetles and wasps, in cow's dung, or if butterflies, locusts, shellfish, snails, eels, and suchlike be procreated of putrefied matter, which is apt to receive the form of that creature to which it is by the formative power disposed.
[May one] doubt whether, in cheese and timber, worms are generated, or, if beetles and wasps, in cow's dung, or if butterflies, locusts, shellfish, snails, eels, and suchlike be procreated of putrefied matter, which is apt to receive the form of that creature to which it is by the formative power disposed.
Hegel, as an idealist, stressed the formative power of the spiritual on human history.
The achievement of Leon Battista Alberti (1404 72) testifies to the formative power and exhaustive scope of earlier Italian humanism.
The possibility of this freedom is founded on two principles that are active in every living thing: one, a dark primal foundation that manifests itself in carnal desire and impulse; the other, a clearheaded sensibleness that governs as a formative power.
More complex beings, however, such as horses and human beings, cannot be produced by the celestial power alone without the formative power of the semen (Quaest. de potentia, qu. 3 a. 8,9,11).
There were also nods to formative powers: "I Got Id," from a collaboration with Neil Young, and one song apiece by the Who and the Ramones.
She describes how literature shaped her from the time she was a small girl growing up in Cairo, and gives a deeply thoughtful account of the formative powers of consistent literary engagement.
As Bobbie Ann Mason points out in her excellent 1975 history, "The Girl Sleuth," Nancy Drew is a paradox — which may be why feminists can laud her as a formative "girl power" icon and conservatives can love her well-scrubbed middle-class values.
Other commentators see Nancy as "a paradox which may be why feminists can laud her as a formative 'girl power' icon and conservatives can love her well-scrubbed middle-class values".
