originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

The second was in no sense originative, mankind being occupied, quietly and industriously, in making themselves comfortable in the pleasant hush after the secular rattle of spear and shield.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various

On the one hand there are originative factors which produce those changes in living creatures which make them different from their fellows.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

The child must himself be originative, directive, and executive in the learning process if cram is to be avoided completely.

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

I am directly or indirectly related as Will, as an originative cause of activity, with a larger portion of my organism, many parts of which are quite distinct from the cognitive portion.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander