self-propagation

Humans are a miracle of blood, bone, and brain, a volatile mixture of compassion and brutality whose most enduring accomplishment—besides self-propagation—is the acquisition of knowledge about our world.

The Loneliest Planet Alan Hirshfeld 2011

From its very onset the telling of this story undergoes a mitosis-like fragmentation and self-propagation.

'The Death of Tolstoy' 2010

Similarly, Chinese Protestantism officially operates under the so-called "Three-Self Patriotic Movement" (the three "selfs" being self-governance, self-support and self-propagation), which in turn is regulated by the party.

God and Man in China 2008

Rongura explains that, after 50 years of unfettered vegetative self-propagation, the mautak is everywhere.

Waiting for the Plague Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

To prevent the potential excesses of egotistic self-propagation, survival is self-limiting and self-regulating.

Live and Let Live, Nature's Message 2006

Do we have any desires other than social identity and self-propagation?

Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind? Ann Althouse 2006

His brilliance at creating typefaces is the outstanding exception, the production of things that combine utility with beauty; but it is not an obvious example of art sharing in the self-propagation of nature.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 2: David Jones: Material Words 2005

When converts are made from heathenism by modern missionaries, it becomes an interesting question whether their faith possesses the elements of permanence, or is only an exotic too tender for self-propagation when the fostering care of the foreign cultivators is withdrawn.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

These cellules have the marvellous faculty of self-propagation, and the faculty, not less marvellous, of transmitting to their posterity the favorable modifications which they have undergone.

The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

Self-support, self-government, and self-propagation are intimately related, acting and reacting on each other, and the native Church should be framed in them from the beginning of its existence.

Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg