Thus and thus only are nations formed which are destined to endure; and as habits based on such convictions are slow in growing, so when grown to maturity they survive extraordinary trials.
These measures might be excused, and perhaps commended; but the younger Gracchus connected his name with another change less commendable, which was destined also to survive and bear fruit.
The victims perish as the champions of principles which survive through the changes of time.
Condemned to immortality by his genius, yet condemned also to survive in the portrait of himself which he has so unconsciously and so innocently drawn.
I thought of our snug little huts, our supplies of meat and oil and moss and firewood, and I knew that we could never survive the wintry sea and the great storms which were to come.
It did not seem possible that such frail craft could survive such stress of wind and water.
Why, you'd not survive the night without blankets: I know how strong you are.
He is, I have heard, a very tough sort of man; and my father is not likely to survive him.
But I should expect the value of gold to survive the shock that might come if gold were entirely displaced from monetary use vastly better than any commodity which serves wants of a different character could stand a similar shock.
Francis Bacon could survive his degradation in the England of his day because he could leave his "name and memory .
But they accused him of imposture, wherefore we delivered him, and those who were with him in the ark, and we caused them to survive the flood, but we drowned those who charged our signs with falsehood.
Sale did not longsurvive the carrying of this scheme into effect.
Even when it was no more than a pigmented spot peculiarly sensitive to light, so the theory holds, it was a variation that enabled a species to survive and perpetuate its kind.
Our individual and even social habits survive a good while the circumstances for which they were made, so that the ultimate effects of an invention are not observed until its novelty is already out of sight.
Indeed it is clear, that in the processes of natural selection those tribes wouldsurvive whose rules of morality did in general promote welfare.
These survive almost completely by virtue of the persistent strength and enduring sublimity of the ideas which they express.
In the literal struggle for existence which characterizes primitive life, those tribes may alone be expected to survive whose customs do promote the welfare of their members.
The only parts of the past that survive physically are the actual material products and achievements of bygone generations, the temples and the cathedrals, the sculptures and the manuscripts, the roads and the relics of earlier civilizations.
In combat between groups those groups survive which do stand out in these respects.
Just as truly might it be said that the kind of society, art, culture, industry, religion, science that does survive depends on the kind of likes and dislikes that are through education made habitual in the young.
The elder ruder race has vanished; but the cave-race of that indefinite but vastly remote era of pliocene, or post-pliocene Europe, is imagined to still survive within the Arctic frontiers of Canada.
The brachycephalic Mound-Builder, on the other hand, may still survive in one or other of the members of the semi-civilised village communities of New Mexico or Arizona.
Their modern representatives survive on the outskirts of Europe’s civilised centres.
Increasingly they are baffled because the facts are not available; and they are wondering whether government by consent can survive in a time when the manufacture of consent is an unregulated private enterprise.
In order to survive or to succeed the group must organize, cozen, discipline, and stimulate its members.
Ask any sincere artist which he would prefer, whether that his work should perish and his memory survive, or that his work should survive and his memory perish, and you will see what he will tell you, if he is really sincere.
And these two theories really amount to the same thing, for in both the individual is opposed to society, as if the individual had preceded society and therefore were destined to survive it.
Just as no one can live in isolation, so no one can survive in isolation.
If a man despises the applause of the crowd of to-day, it is because he seeks to survive in renewed minorities for generations.
And hence this tremendous struggle to singularize ourselves, to survive in some way in the memory of others and of posterity.
It was not a struggle for bread--it was a struggle to survive in God, in the divine memory.
Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die to-morrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized.
But have I any certainty that anything has preceded me or that anything must survive me?
He wishes, at the least, to leave behind a shadow of his spirit, something that may survive him.
In the struggle for existence those which best accord with their surroundings will survive and propagate their kind.
A flower which in form, scent or hue varies gainfully is likely to survive while others perish.
That it was the death of his honour to survive the butchery which he ought to have died, if necessary, in resisting sword in hand, is a soldier's judgment on his case.
How will the enchantment of passion survive when the object of our adoration can only spare us an hour from her medical cases, or defers an interview because she is choked with fresh briefs?
And now by the especial mercy and grace of the Devil you are a Legionnaire--or will be, if you survive the making.
But if a letter arrived on the previous day, stating that Lord Huntingten was dead leaving no children, and that Lady Huntingten had just heard of his survival and longed for his return--would hesurvive that fight?
I have never known a naked-eyed Medusa survive an exposure of fifteen minutes; but they may survive an exposure of ten, and generally survive an exposure of five.
Most of the disputes which separate brethren are about the dividing of the inheritance, and it does seem to be the case that few friendships can survive the test of money.
We survive the shock of the moment easier than the constant reminder of our loss.
It lives by its immediate theatrical effectiveness alone, even if it can survive solely by its literary quality.
It is often thus within the power of an actor to create a dramatist; and his surest means of immortality is to inspire the composition of plays which may survive his own demise.
Some sense of this must have been in the mind of Sir Henry Irving when he strove industriously to create a dramatist who might survive him and immortalise his memory.
Lord Tennyson came near the mark in Becket; but this play, like those of Wills, has not proved sturdy enough to survive the actor who inspired it.
Illustration: Jewish Runner Soliciting Immigrants for the Steamship Company] Like all races that survive the sepsis of civilization, the Hebrews show great tenacity of purpose.
So, when people submit themselves to totally strange conditions of life, Death whets his scythe, and those who survive are a new kind of "fittest.
Among them survive Old-World ways, such as reaping by handfuls with a sickle and hauling hay from the field on a sleigh.
I neither believe nor desire that Irene shouldsurvive me.
Real love is timid, it would rather err than suspect, it buries doubts instead of nursing them, and very wisely, for love cannotsurvive faith.
If, by a fatality not without precedent, Irene should have the strength and misfortune to survive me, to you, madame, do I confide her.
