Noun
The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. Thomas Carlyle
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. John Lancaster Spalding
The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth. John Lancaster Spalding
Syndicalists consider their economic theories a strategy for facilitating worker self-activity and as an alternative co-operative economic system with democratic values and production centered on meeting human needs. Source: Internet
The most interesting of these, those that are relevant to my current purpose, have been those which insisted on the primacy of the self-activity and creativity of people in struggle against capitalism. Source: Internet