Self-evolution

Self`-ev`o`lu´tion


n. 1. Evolution of one's self; development by inherent quality or power.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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It was necessary to refrain from immediate action to focus first on the humble yet deeply rewarding task of self-evolution. The community became imbued with the possibility that we are experiencing the emergence of the next stage in human evolution within ourselves, personally (Hubbard, 2001).
Clarke traces the evolution of Marsden's thought as it is reflected in her different journals, and it is finally his three-part argument that she moved from a "postsuffragist feminism" to a "postfeminist anarchism," that this development negotiated the shift in scientific culture from evolutionary vitalism to thermodynamics, and that the resulting discursive amalgam of scientific, social, and political ideologies enabled in turn the construction of the "individualism of pure self-evolution" so crucial to much of high modernist literary production.
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