Meanings of hidden powers in English

What hidden powers are at play, and what can the U.S. do?

By Science and by Art he brings hidden powers into the region of the visible world.

Well, I was a boy, and what boy does not secretly wish to find hidden powers in himself?

I have hidden powers of persuasion.

Not because those mysterious hidden powers bore any animosity toward him but simply because he was beneath their notice.

La Soufriere made the first historic display of its hidden powers in 1718, when lava poured from its crater.

Everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers.

Asclepias searched out the hidden powers of plants, and discovered cures for the various diseases which afflict the human body.

That means that their whole being is stirred up right to the bottom, and that their hidden powers are frightfully active.

To educate them is to bring out their hidden powers, to form their character, and prepare them for their station in life.

With hidden powers of uncertain extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

Steam, electricity, petrol, the Hertzian wave, harnessed nature's hidden powers, conquered distance, and shrunk the terrestrial globe to the measure of human hands.