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Our civilization is mainly self-evolved; a natural growth developing by normal, logical, and relatively gradual stages.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop

As some creatures have the faculty of emitting a dark and turbid matter that discolours the water, and hides them from their pursuers, so it is a self-evolved and home-made darkness that involves us.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus

When she had one, usually self-evolved, she held fast to it, nor cared a jot about its possible insecurity.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

Then, as the day descended into evening, the autumn trees assumed that wonderful effect of luminousness self-evolved, 67 and the red brick walls that crimson afterglow, which Tuscan twilight takes from singular transparency of atmosphere.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

The ideas, it is true, were not self-evolved; they presupposed beliefs which had been bequeathed by the past; but their logical development and the forms which they assumed were the work of the Egyptian people.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)