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adjective abiding, ageless, ceaseless, changeless, chronic, confirmed, constant, continued, dateless, deep-seated, durable, endless, enduring, entrenched, established, eternal, everlasting, fast, fixed, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incommutable, indefeasible, indelible, indestructible, ineradicable, inextinguishable, infinite, ingrained, insusceptible to change, interminable, intransient, intransmutable, invulnerable, irreversible, irrevocable, lasting, long-lasting, never-ending, nonreversible, perdurable, perduring, perennial, perpetual, persevering, persistent, persisting, preserved, remaining, reverseless, rooted, secure, sempiternal, set, stabilis, stable, static, stationary, staying, steadfast, steady, surviving, sustained, tenacious, unalterable, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanging, unchecked, undestroyable, unending, unerasable, unfading, unfailing, unflagging, uninterrupted, unmodifiable, unmovable, unrepealable, unshifting, unvarying, unwavering, unyielding, without end

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If species are only well-marked varieties, of which the characters have become in a high degree permanent, we can understand this fact; for they have already varied since they branched off from a common progenitor in certain characters, by which they have come to be specifically distinct from each other; and therefore these same characters would be more likely still to be variable than the generic characters which have been inherited without change for an enormous period.

If species be only well-marked and permanent varieties, we can at once see why their crossed offspring should follow the same complex laws in their degrees and kinds of resemblance to their parents,--in being absorbed into each other by successive crosses, and in other such points,--as do the crossed offspring of acknowledged varieties.

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The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez, the Nelson, the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.

We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive, this of caste or fashion for example; yet come from year to year and see how permanent that is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.

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In some of the larger towns there are artels of a much more complex kind-- permanent associations, possessing large capital, and pecuniarily responsible for the acts of the individual members.

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My loss of confidence in myself in that line was permanent.

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