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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

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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

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

From Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland

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 Mrs. George Horrocks

In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014

Her sorrow was real, of course, but the fire lighted by the senses is small and not enduring, and when the occasion arises regret is not eternalized, besides there were others waiting with impatience.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton

The war-cries of the two opponents, however, became eternalized as factional names in the struggle of Frederick's successors against other foes.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Yes, everything deserves to be eternalized, absolutely everything, even evil itself, for that which we call evil would lose its evilness in being eternalized, because it would lose its temporal nature.

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

In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?

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

It was easy to imagine Hals set up with his easel here, eternalizing the residents’ animated faces.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021

Imagine bottling the scent of someone you love, eternalizing them forever, allowing you to dive into a fond memory of that person with just one whiff.

From National Geographic ● May 10, 2018

This eternal and eternalizing person who gives meaning—and I will add, a human meaning, for there is none other—to the Universe, is it a substantial something, existing independently of our consciousness, independently of our desire?

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

What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

To be, to be for ever, to be without ending! thirst of being, thirst of being more! hunger of God! thirst of love eternalizing and eternal! to be for ever! to be God!

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