There is certainly the most extraordinary diversity in the traits by which nature achieves the perpetuation of species.

It is a pity, for the "heart that watches and receives" will often find in the pleasantries of childhood a good deal that deserves perpetuation.

SENSUALITY, SENTIMENTALITY, AND SENTIMENT From beginnings not yet understoodthough Haeckel and others have speculated plausibly on the subjectthere has been developed in animals and human beings an appetite which insures the perpetuation of the species as the appetite for food does that of the individual.

This would have meant the perpetuation in its worst form of French influence over South Germany.

It was denounced by Pitt as having for its principal object the perpetuation of the administration by the enormous patronage it would place at the disposal of the Treasury; and, through the interposition of the King, whose conduct on this occasion must be confessed to have been wholly unconstitutional, it was defeated in the House of Lords.

From the study of these statues were produced those great creations which all subsequent ages have admired; and from the application of the principles seen in these forms we owe the perpetuation of the ideas of grace and beauty such as no other people besides the Greeks had ever discovered, or indeed scarcely appreciated.

Sublimely did the Fathers call the Eucharist the extension of the Incarnation: only I should have preferred the perpetuation and application of the Incarnation.

As the partial independence of the great vassals became consolidated, the monarchs were proportionally anxious to prevent its perpetuation in the same families.