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In literature, the term "generation" is a versatile word that often carries both literal and metaphorical significance. In biblical texts, for example, it serves to underscore continuity and divine promise, as seen in passages like [1] and [2], where it implies an unending transmission of faith and blessings. By contrast, writers such as Henry Adams in [3] and Booker T. Washington in [4] use "generation" to refer to temporal cohorts whose characteristics or mistakes define their era. Moreover, in more scientific or sociological contexts—illustrated by Émile Durkheim in [5] and [6]—the word is employed to describe recurring social structures or processes. Thus, whether evoking eternal legacies or critiquing the traits of a contemporary group, "generation" remains a key literary concept that links the past, present, and future.
  1. The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. Let these things be written unto another generation: and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord: 101:20.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. Such seemed the theory of history to be imposed by science on the generation born after 1900.
    — from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
  4. God's name a man might do towards saving the next generation from such a burden.
    — from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
  5. The four classes form two couples of two classes each, and these two classes alternate with each other every generation in the manner just indicated.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
  6. In the first place, each generation in a phratry belongs to different clans from the immediately preceding one.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

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