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Self-action

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Self`-ac´tion
n.1.Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.


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Although the plants in these experiments appeared perfectly healthy, and although both the ovules and pollen of the same flower were perfectly good with respect to other species, yet as they were functionally imperfect in their mutual self-action, we must infer that the plants were in an unnatural state.
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