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The law of causation is applicable only to changes; not to the forces of nature, to matter, or to the world as a whole, which are perdurable.

The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.

We are told that a thing is in our ‘soul-blood’ and our ‘soul-bones;’ and we hear of ‘marmoreal floods’ that ‘spread their couch of perdurable snow.’

The old world held the secret; and he would accept this solitary and perdurable column as the symbol of that secret.

They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.