In other words, your definition tells that the passion for perpetuation is the cause of love, and perpetuation the end to be accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
They do not reason that the need for perpetuation is the cause of passion; and that human passion, working through imagination and worked upon by imagination, becomes love. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
The lecture under discussion was concerned with a matter called perpetuation of type. From Wordnik.com. [Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart] Reference
Yes, local government played a role in perpetuating racism, but it is unclear weather it was the dominant role in the long term perpetuation of racism in the South. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism] Reference
But in reality it is only the perpetuation of injustice. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Jamaica, as an argument for the perpetuation of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It teaches nothing but the perpetuation of damaging stereotypes. From Wordnik.com. ['South Park' Rules?] Reference
The fundamental idea of forestry is the perpetuation of forests by use. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
This expression I desire to repeat here for perpetuation in endurable form. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
The perpetuation of the species must not depend upon the license of immaturity. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
And even if one was so, what chance was there of the perpetuation of such a variation?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Great Britain, Texas seemed indispensable to the preservation and perpetuation of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Their advancement in moral character would have put to shame the advocate for the perpetuation of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It is a purely natural and instinctive function whose underlying purpose is the perpetuation of the species. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Given centuries of weak, cruel, and corrupt government, and you have the perpetuation of brigandage inevitably. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
It has forgotten the everlasting lesson of history that mergence of distinct types means the perpetuation of nationalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
Even free labor, itself, is made largely subservient to slavery, and vitally interested in its perpetuation and extension. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
His orders to troops indicate only a soldierly spirit, with probably a little regard for the perpetuation of his own fame. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They demanded the extension, the protection, and the perpetuation of slavery; and upon that question the country was divided. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
But you cannot achieve national reconciliation on the basis of the perpetuation of the injustices and disparities of the past. From Wordnik.com. ['We Need Reconciliation'] Reference
Mr. Cullman believes their recent track record proves that private foundations exist primarily for their own self-perpetuation. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Way to Really Give Away Money] Reference
The second and third classes tended to keep alive the status of the former and led to the perpetuation of the landed aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Such consideration is the touchstone by which all social customs are tried, to see whether they be worthy of perpetuation or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
We have an obligation to take action and the existence of the slave trade throughout history does not legitimize its perpetuation. From Wordnik.com. [Live Talk: Slavery in Our Times] Reference
One purpose of the Northern Nut Growers Association is to encourage the perpetuation by propagation of the better varieties of nut trees. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948] Reference
This was more than the people who had secured to us the perpetuation of the Union were prepared for, and they became more radical in their views. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Hence the people of the South were dependent upon keeping control of the general government to secure the perpetuation of their favorite institution. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Mr. Clow, who owes the perpetuation of his name thus long to the distinguished rivals whom he distanced, and the illustrious professor whom he succeeded. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The majority are fighting for the extension and perpetuation of that Heaven-defying system which is at once the idol and the bane of the South -- for that. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Surely the loss of his farm was amply compensated to him, by the perpetuation of his memory and his name, through the rearing of such a marvellous cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
The persistence of habit, social as well as individual, would account for the perpetuation of the custom long after the occasion which gave rise to it had been forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Now, the very head and front, the bone and marrow of Southern politics for more than three decades, has been -- slavery, and plans for its aggrandizement and perpetuation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Not only was he not rewarded for his role as the Dayton peacemaker - he was faced with new sanctions, an ultimatum and a direct threat on the very perpetuation of his regime. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
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