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Taken separately, they each express the psychic self-conservation.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

In itself, without a plurality of dispositions and impulses, the soul is originally not a representative force, but first becomes such under certain circumstances, viz., when it is stimulated to self-conservation by other beings.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Their natures still tend towards self-conservation and the realization of their end.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

This is accordingly the period of direct fashioning through the activity of the formative mechanism implicit in the germ-plasm, also the period of the self-conservation of the formed parts without active functioning.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell