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Once it was said that they were moved by spirits, then by vortexes, now by self-evolved forces.

From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles

I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Shall we accept the august Testimony of the whole body of the Fathers? or shall we prefer to be guided by the self-evolved imaginations of one who confessedly has nothing to offer but conjecture?

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

It did not come into being of itself; it is no fortuitous concurrence of atoms; no self-evolved product out of nothing, or the result of continuous development and evolution.

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

Also his self-evolved translation of the duties of friendship is the last word on that subject.

From The Native Son by Gillmore, Inez Haynes