Another word for striving

The constant striving after these three ends is the key to Bacon's life.

With Epiphanes, his son, he was the leader of a philosophic school basing its theories mainly upon Platonism, and striving to amalgamate Plato's Republic with the Christian ideal of human brotherhood.

He attached himself naturally to Cardinal Beaufort, and even thus early seems to have been striving for a general peace.

That doctrine took some few years to produce its effect, but it became evident at once to those who accepted Darwinism that the natural classification of animals, after which collectors and anatomists, morphologists, philosophers and embryologists had been so long striving, was nothing more nor less than a genealogical tree, with breaks and gaps of various extent in its record.

After this they raised a great mound, striving to make it as high as possible.