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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

He was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit, endless generator of new ends; a power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of things.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is the nature of this life of man, which, like all life, is self-evolving; and by conflict with what does the evolution take place?

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

The great style is a sort of organic, self-evolving work of art, to which the innumerable units of the great human family have all put their hands.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

“The mind,” so wrote the Horseherd, “is not a prius, it is a development, a self-evolving phenomenon.”

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