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Struggle and aliency are at end, and whatever activity now goes on feels self-conserving, spontaneous, free.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

And there is nothing more moral than the collective egoism, the self-conserving instinct, of nations.—Prof.

From Gems (?) of German Thought by Archer, William