eternalize

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According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain

That which man seeks in religion, in religious faith, is to save his own individuality, to eternalize it, which he achieves neither by science, nor by art, nor by ethics.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

He says, "Napoleon first solved the enigma of equality and liberty—his chief aim was the prevention of despotism—his chief desire, to eternalize the dominion of virtue."

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

Our desire is to eternalize ourselves, to persist, and we call good everything that conspires to this end and bad everything that tends to lessen or destroy our consciousness.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)