autochthonic

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You will certainly not adopt Niebuhr's autochthonic theory, where such facts lie before you.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

He sees the Gothic architecture spring high, spontaneous and autochthonic, first in the territory of Paris and thence spread outwards in a ring to the Scotch Highlands and to the Rhine.

From Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" by Belloc, Hilaire

The dance is the primordial, autochthonic form of music; its foundation so to speak.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander

Or was it original and autochthonic, independent, in its inception, of any external influences, and unconnected with any other institution?

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

Yet he impressed on all he said, on good words and bad alike, a marked autochthonic quality, as of the self-raised spontaneous products of some miraculous soil, from which prodigies and portents spring.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by Rudd, John