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Fairy tales offer to the little child an opportunity for the exercise of that self-active inner impulse which seeks expression in two kinds of play, the symbolic activity of free play and the concrete presentation of types.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

My sole purpose is to make the reader self-active, observative, free from hide-bound prejudice, and reborn as a participant in the wonderful experiences of life which fill the universe.

The Human Side of Animals Royal Dixon 1923

Each monad being an independent self-active, source of action, neither dependent on other monads nor influenced by them, it can continue acting without interference forever.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

It is a simple, spiritual substance of a self-active nature.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Once knowledge is regarded as a synthetic act of a self-active subject, the gap artificially created between subject and object, reality and appearance, closes of itself.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

No material being can be self-active, and I perceive that I am so.

Paras. 50-99 1909

It only exists -- and can only exist -- in these its single self-active representations.

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

Nature is a collective being made up of component beings -- self-active electrons, self-active atoms, self-active suns and planets, self-active cells, plants, animals, men, and groups and nations of men -- as

The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Francis Edward Younghusband 1902

The difference between the two is the difference of life and death, or that that is self-active, and that that is not self-active.

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898

Taught and compelled to obey, he could but walk in the marked-out path of another's will, and, hence, all independence and self-active power were denied him.

The Negro and the White Man Wesley John 1897