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In literature, the term "replica" is multifaceted, used to suggest imitation, derivation, or an aspect of a greater whole. For instance, Santayana employs the word to emphasize that while something may be reliable, it remains no true counterpart to a higher or more original existence ([1]). In another context, Webster uses "replica" to underscore how certain historical figures or representations, like the Marquis de Sade, embody derivative qualities intertwined with negative, controversial traits ([2]). Finally, Durkheim integrates the term in a metaphysical sense, describing one part of the soul as a replica or emanation of another, thereby highlighting the concept's role in expressing complex ideas about identity and existence ([3]).
  1. Reliable as it may be in that capacity, it is no replica of anything on its own level existing beyond.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  2. So also his eighteenth-century replica, the Marquis de Sade, combined with his abominations an impassioned hatred of the Christian religion.
    — from Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta Helen Webster
  3. [Pg 255] soul, of which the former is an emanation and a sort of replica.
    — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

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