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  • This power, according to Hogle, is the permanent, though self-concealing, self-mover causing all these transpositions, and it is the actual movement from state to state that turns one coloration into another without revealing any self-contained point of departure

    Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

  • However, Aristotle's picture of the will was not undisputed in the Middle Ages: as early as the twelfth century, Anselm had outlined a theory in which the will was a self-mover, and in which moral conflict was explained by the presence of two wills in the same person (Normore

    Medieval Theories of Causation White, Graham 2009

  • But it’s worth pointing out that there already is an automobile (which is defined as a self-mover) that is 100 percent recyclable over a 5 - to 25-year period, with waste equal to food.

    July 2008: More letters to the editor 2008

  • "Did'st thou see her, Neb-Anat -- the Queen -- the Queen in the living flesh sitting there in the self-mover, the devil-machine?

    The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

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