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Each center focuses on just a few areas of agriculture and maintains the international germplasm (seed or other propagative material) for a few "mandate crops."

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A living being, we know, may spring from another without any intention, and as without loss so without consciousness in the begetter: in fact any intention the animal exercised could be a cause of propagation only on condition of being identical with the animal [i.e., the theory would make intention a propagative animal, not a mental act?]

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

American believers both in the propagative and administrative spheres of

Messages to America 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

In these _open communities_ the soil is very often or always so open and so irregularly clothed that there is space for many more individuals than are actually present; the cause for this is obviously to be sought in the climatically unfavorable conditions of life, which either prevent plants from producing seed and other propagative bodies in sufficient numbers to clothe the ground or prevent the development of seedlings.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

We can hope for no advance until we attain a new conception of sex, not as a merely propagative act, not merely as a biological necessity for the perpetuation of the race, but as a psychic and spiritual avenue of expression.

The Pivot of Civilization Margaret Sanger 1924

Sexual activity, we see, is not merely a bald propagative act, nor, when propagation is put aside, is it merely the relief of distended vessels.

On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 1921

[PAGE 143] THE RACE SPIRITS AND THE NEW RACE exercise of the propagative function, was stilled by castigation.

Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship 1910

Tanana, and the ranges of the Seward Peninsula agents of the swiftly spreading industry had offered as high as a hundred and ten dollars a head for breeding stock with the blood of the woodland caribou, and of these native and larger caribou of the tundras and forests seven young bulls and nine female calves had been captured and added to their own propagative forces.

The Alaskan James Oliver Curwood 1903

The propagative act might, it was thought, be performed as impersonally, as perfunctorily, as the early Christian Fathers imagined it had been performed in Paradise.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

The practice is based, he says, on the fact that sexual intercourse consists of two acts, a social and a propagative, and that if propagation is to be scientific there must be no confusion of these two acts, and procreation must never be involuntary.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899