Definition of "autogenesis" []

• See abiogenesis. (noun)

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• "In this primal scene of autogenesis "each single particular nature commences with the rotation about its own axis and hence, manifestly, in a state of inner revulsion" or "anxiety.""
• "Page 312, Volume 4 und Stoff (1855) cited the autogenesis of life as evidence that the inherent energies of matter had alone brought all things into existence."