The coordinative mechanism of tradition, resting as it does on the perpetuation of social roles, is marked by a characteristic changelessness in the societies in which it is dominant. |
Our own civilisation inherited such a concept from ancient Hebrew sages who imagined a unique act of creation that inaugurated change within changelessness and time within eternity. |
If we look at the changelessness of divine power, whatever God could do he still can do. |
It is reasonable to assume that the caste system, contrary to the popular images of its changelessness, has always been characterized by the efforts of various jatis to raise themselves in the social order. |
And yet for those five days in May cricket offered a vision of continuity and changelessness. |
The very landscape, cluttered with history, was disconcertingly filled with evidence of the changelessness of things. |