Given their own intervention in the material they copied, it seems improbable that they would have regarded their texts as set down for posterity.
The handling, then, goes both ways, as the immaterial ghosts become blooded with desire for the soul of posterity.
Further more, there were recognized contemporary methods of coping with an incapacitated ruler, which would have been far harder to conceal from posterity.
Why did these documents disappear from an office in which even the smallest and apparently most insignificant drawing was saved for posterity?
Tempting as it would be to attempt a 'history from below ', the soldier's voice has not been directly transmitted to posterity.
His posterity wept, all believing he was buried in the bellies of fishes.
For fear that dialects would fade away before being recorded for posterity, dialectologists have concentrated their investigations on the description of the old dialect forms.
Given the general lack of regard for film posterity among early twentieth-century producers and distributors, their disregard for the film's posterity is unsurprising.
