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Of course you can still say that the mind is a development, a self-evolving phenomenon.

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Dramatic art, in its purest modern conception, is genuinely positive; that is, it is the presentation of action, character, and motive in a self-sufficing and self-evolving order.

From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron by Morley, John

The new 'vitalism' unfolds a living self-evolving universe, a restless, unfinished and never-to-be-finished development—the scope and goal of which cannot be foreseen or explained.

From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.

These facts cannot be explained merely as man's share in the cosmic movement towards a yet unrealized perfection; such as the unachieved and self-evolving Divinity of some realist philosophers.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

Or, rather, the impulse that constitutes his life as man, is the self-evolving activity of reason.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir