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Did they create that great trust, did they voluntarily subject themselves to this self-restriction, that the power should remain in the Federal government inactive, unexecuted, and lifeless?

From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander

It will then also become clear out of what historic necessity this self-restriction of scientific inquiry arose.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

In the course of his exposition, Heisenberg also speaks of Goethe, in whose scientific endeavours he perceives a noteworthy attempt to set scientific understanding upon a path other than that of progressive self-restriction.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

The self-restriction of scientific inquiry to one-eyed colourblind observation.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst

The idea of the clan is always present to his mind, and self-restriction and self-sacrifice in the interest of the clan are of daily occurrence.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz