And so we discover how money, properly understood, is connected with time—the main function of money is to measure and represent the accumulated products of the labor of past generations.
And when the experiences of past generations come to be repeated in the individual, the emotion gains both strength and definiteness; and is accompanied by the appropriate specific ideas.
Men of past generations, living riotously as they did, could bear more than men of the present generation, who live soberly, can bear.
This school not only respected positive religion, as ancient stoicism had done, but venerated it, because it saw there the expression of an old revelation handed down by past generations.
The stanch adherence of past generationsto beliefs and rites of unlimited antiquity seemed to guarantee their truth and efficacy.
This distinctively human tradition presupposes trains of ideas in past generations, which so mold the environment of a new generation that in apprehending and adapting itself to this environment it must re-think the old trains of thought.
In the case of human beings, the thought of past generations is embodied in language, institutions, machinery, and the like.
Thus Loeb says: A prominent psychologist has maintained that reflexes are to be considered as the mechanical effects of acts of volition of past generations.
This is a new word which was not in the lexicon of woman in past generations.
In every generation such chastisement has been needed; the need is no greater to-day than in past generations, and the chastening love no less.
VI The Coming Reformation It would be instructive to study the attempts which the church has made, in past generations, to escape from the evil conditions into which she has fallen.
With the disorders from which the church has suffered in past generations we need not now concern ourselves.
Such, then, are the sources from which have come that better knowledge of God which makes the religion of our time to differ from the religion of past generations.
Not the virtues of past generations, but the righteousness of the present one, is the guarantee of national exaltation.
This incident teaches us what Christ's death was to Himself; what it was in reference to previous revelation; what it was in reference to past generations; and what it may be in reference to His servants' death.
Again, we have here set before us the death of Christ in its relation to past generations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past generations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
