time-binding

[ tahym-bahyn-ding ]

noun

1. the distinctively human attribute of preserving memories and records of experiences for the use of subsequent generations.

Example Sentences

What we do need from labor, and what we will always need, is his brain—his time-binding power.

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In mastering and using this inheritance of knowledge, they are exercising their time-binding energies and making the labor of the dead live in the present and for the future.

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It must be built upon the scientific conception of mankind as characterized by their time-binding capacity and function.

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Everything which is really “time-binding” is in the human dimension; therefore, it will represent every quality that is implied in such words as—good, just, right, beautiful; while everything that is merely space-binding will be classified as “animal” and be thus assessed at its proper value.

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As a matter of fact, if humanity were to live in complete accord with the animal conception of man, artificial production—time-binding production—would cease and ninety per cent of mankind would perish by starvation.

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