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

And we have discovered what man is: we have discovered that man is characterized by the capacity or power to bind time, and so we have defined humanity as the time-binding class of life.

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It must be emphasized that the development of higher ideals is due to the natural capacity of humanity; the impulse is simply time-binding impulse.

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Man has the capacity of time-binding—he binds time.

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Life shows that man has time-binding capacity as a natural gift and is naturally impelled to use it.

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And however imperfect ethics has been owing to the prevalence of animal standards, such merits as our ethics has had witness to the natural presence of “idealization” in time-binding human life.

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