Berhane said, "Come, let me show you". He took this man and showed him, and the story ends with: "nothing happened at the National Museum, because of Berhane's concern". All of those things were preserved.
"The only things being preserved are mosques," he said.
From here onwards, the sensible things are "preserved in the memory, brought forth by recollection, [and] distinguished by the higher faculty of the soul" (Caspar 1993, p. 269, cf. KGW 6, p. 214, lines 18 23; Engl. trans., p. 293).
Different fossils, depending upon how they were preserved, tell us different things.
Adds Dewinn: "The physical preservation of all things is not possible, but we can preserve information about them.
Finally, some things can be preserved in amber.
Things can be preserved, we seem to be saying, perfectly, digitally, and for ever.
Being inexhaustible in use, moreover, it is not susceptible of occupation, which is necessary when the utility of things can be preserved only if they become private property.
"If these things can be preserved, then they might be a nice marker around the world of when humans came to dominate the globe and leave behind their refuse in mass quantities".
The historical and Holocene record of volcanic eruptions is better understood than its Pleistocene counterpart, and all things being equal, younger tephras should be better preserved.
But as this year's judicial elections underscore, the only thing really being preserved is clubhouse control of lucrative courthouse patronage.
