"spiritus mundi" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1919, William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming:",
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          "text": "Judson House was bohemian in the broadest sense of that term: a working or living space through much of the 20th century for people alienated from middle-class values, artistic, political, and spiritual. . . . \"More than a building, it's the spiritus mundi,\" says senior minister Peter Laarman.",
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          "text": "L.A. was a magnet for lives in desperate duress. . . . The place itself provided solace and recompense. They had the comfort of other arriviste losers. They entered the L.A. spiritus mundi.",
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          "ref": "2007, Robert Ellwood, Campus Secrets, →ISBN, page 166:",
          "text": "A mind laughing, running, darting, planning, crunching letters and words one after the other, was something for which the spiritus mundi of this lost eon was not yet ready.",
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