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

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

May we not say, perhaps, that the evil man is annihilated because he wished to be annihilated, or that he did not wish strongly enough to eternalize himself because he was evil?

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

Oh, to prolong this blissful moment, to sleep, to eternalize oneself in it!

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

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)