verb: weaken mentally or morally
verb: disturb the composure of
Schauberger
The former invigorate, the latter enervate.
The development of high-grade products of potentiation is only possible via an exceptionally long course of development - and what is decisive here - only if the mechanical motive impulse takes place first, which then automatically gives rise to the reactive increase in power upon which the normal course of further development is founded. [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Life-Current in Air and Water]
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