The continuity and repetition of proved political organisation is a notable characteristic of the great races which have left, or are destined to leave, their mark on history.
And the instinct of the Roman nature forcontinuity in institutions prepossesses us in favour of the theory.
The imperial pontiff was bound to watch over the purity and continuity of the Latin rites.
The same continuity of form is seen in the colleges.
The foundation law of the college of Diana and Antinous betrays some anxiety lest the continuity of the society should be broken.
But, besides the benefactions which sprang either from ambition or real generosity, a vast number were inspired by the Roman passion for long remembrance, and for the continuity of funerary ritual.
Mere imperative precept and rule cannot give steadiness and continuity to conduct.
Yet the religious instinct will always strive to maintain its continuity with the past, however it may transfigure the legacy of ruder ages.
The verdict of the suitors is only another form of the entry on the rolls, and both are means of securing the continuity of an institution and not merely of providing information to outsiders.
He is greatly impressed by the 'Vis inertiae' of social condition, and by the continuity of historical development arising from it.
Moreover, theoretical development has a continuity of its own; all the strength of this manifold life cannot break or turn back its course, but is reduced to drive it forward in ever new bends and curves.
Otherwise the continuity of the capitalist world is unthinkable.
Individuals die; partnerships are dissolved; but the corporation with its unbroken existence, possesses a continuity and a permanence that are impossible of attainment under the earlier forms of business organization.
Give examples of curves of continuityand contrast.
The curves of Figure 80 are excellent lines for freehand practice in designing mouldings and will develop the principle of continuity of curvature or the smooth transition of one curve into the next.
Just before the lapping was finished, Professor Thomson reported that the electrical continuity of the wire had ceased, but that the insulation was still perfect.
These not only serve to give an accurate test of the continuity and insulation of the conducting-wire from end to end, but also to give certain signals which it is desirable to send for information purposes.
The results of these signals to test the continuity of the line were observed and recorded on board both ships.
Thus, if a defect of continuity or insulation occurs it is brought to light by comparison with those received before.
The announcement comes from the electrician's testing-room that the continuity is perfect, and with this assurance the engineers go on more boldly with the work.
When the excitement, consequent upon having so narrowly saved the cable, had passed away, we awoke to the consciousness that the case was yet as hopeless as ever, for the electrical continuity was still entirely wanting.
Or rather is not each fragment a whole in itself, and is not the idea of self-continuity from day to day and from week to week a self-delusion?
Time is thecontinuity of change: where there is change there is time; without change time would be inconceivable.
As thus apprehended, time is not merely the reality of change: it is the successive continuity or duration of change considered as a measure of change.
A continuous series of memories, especially when the continuity persists after an interruption.
On the one hand it has been attacked, as has already been indicated, as being too elaborate for the facts,--as endowing transitory moments of subconscious intelligence with more continuity and independence than they really possess.
In earth-life the actual body, in itself but a subordinate element in our thought of our friend, did yet by its physical continuity override as a symbol of identity all lapses of memory, all changes of the character within.
No one at the date of that revelation suspected that uniformity, that continuity of the Universe which long experience has now made for us almost axiomatic.
More than once the continuity is nearly broken, but some strand is always preserved, and it is in this continuity in the world of ideas that we get the main evidence of such progress as human history reveals.
Biological continuity is as complete at the Bosphorus as it is at Gibraltar.
Unity of character, for example, is a different thing from continuity of historical development, for a civilization might radically change its character in the course of generations.
Thus in the intellectual world there is a continuity stretching back six thousand years or more to the beginnings of recorded civilization.
This order will in some measure be preserved in the following survey; but regard for the continuity of the tradition of the doctrine will entail certain deviations.
Such a point of view, moreover, gained extraordinary strength by the fact that it preserved continuity with earlier Greek religious thought.
Now, I cannot think that this suggestion is in conformity with a just view of the continuity of science.
The established Churches could retain their historical continuity under any modification of the articles.
There is a continuity between the present and the past of that curious peninsula, such as we seldom find in any other place.
There is a continuity in language which nothing equals, and there is an historical genuineness in ancient words, if but rightly interpreted, which cannot be rivaled by manuscripts, or coins, or monumental inscriptions.
Perpetual society had destroyed in her all continuity of mind.
If that is so, of course, you mustn't break the continuity with a trip to the Greek Islands or Tunis.
The continuity of capital took the place of the permanence of the governing body in providing stability.
The aristocracy often initiated matches of their children for the sake of continuity in the family estates and tried to obtain the consent of their children for the match in mind.
He gave it a new charter in 1657 which included authority to make stock permanent, thus ensuring a continuity of capital.
The continuity of a general record would be broken by divergence into episodes interesting on account of their exceptional character.
It is anticipating events to proceed to the days of Angelica Kaufmann and Mary Moser, but, for the sake of preserving the continuity of the subject, a rapid review may be taken of the work done by women in the last century.
According to his custom, and in order to preserve continuity of style with the foregoing plays, Shakespeare has interspersed Henry V.
But it was the historic ingredient in this genealogical passion--if its continuity through three generations may be so described--which appealed to his perseverance at the expense of his wisdom.
Then it is that hope lifts our hearts from despair, and a positive assurance of thecontinuity of life is worth all else in the world.
If the future life is a continuity of this, then the perfection of religion is the making of this life perfect.
Founded on Evolution and theContinuity of Man's Existence Beyond the Grave.
A host of bold writers had been trying, with considerable firmness and continuity of purpose, to start a new kind of fiction, writing in perfect accordance with the determinist theories of Auguste Comte, Darwin and Taine.
His studies resulted in his writing Natural Law in the Spiritual World, the argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual.
