Meanings of prime motor in English

Thomas's prime motor was very powerful, and its lines of energy were infinite.

Even in the prime motor, from the moment of action, freedom of will vanished.

All we know is the thing we handle, and we cannot handle your fixed, intelligent prime motor.

For the thousandth and hundred-thousandth time;-whatis the use of discussing this prime motor, this Spinozan substance, any longer?

Also the hereditary instinct has been the prime motor which has created constructive municipal jurisprudence and which has evolved religion.

God is an intelligent, fixed prime motor-nota concept, or proved by concepts;- aconcretefact, proved by the senses of sight and touch.

Scot held that the excess of power in Thomas's prime motor neutralized the power of his secondary causes, so that these appeared altogether superfluous.

As Saint Thomas expressed it, the Prime Motor, Who was nothing else than God, intervened to decide the channel of the current.

Indeed, the events of 1914-18 proved one of the prime motors of social change in modern British history.