It's a (slight variation on) a Bible verse (Proverbs 29:18), and seems perfectly clear to me: a people without visionary leaders are, ultimately, doomed.
"Shall not perish" typically refers to something that will not cease to exist or be destroyed, indicating longevity or permanence.
It simply meant that "the government of the people and for the people" will survive this civil war and not be destroyed.
This is part of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. "government of the people by the people for the people" means "democracy" "shall not perish from this earth" means "will/must not be overthrown/disappear" Thus the fragment of text could be paraphrased = "so that US democracy experiment does not die out"
"Shall not perish from the Earth" is a complex way of saying "Will not disappear from the planet". In the Gettysburg Address, where this phrase is from, Lincoln argues that the US Civil War is a test about whether a democratic nation has any long-term staying power on the Earth.
ANSWER: Vision is the ability to see. Symbolically, in scripture, vision is also the ability to see ahead. "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he" (Proverbs 29:18). People who keep the law (the ten commandments) automatically have more vision. The King James "perish" is from the Hebrew "para", meaning throw off restraints. Where there is no vision people throw off restraints. The law establishes restraints in behavior and boundaries on conduct.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "Technology or Perish"
technology or perish
That exact phrase comes from Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address", but the idea that governments can only be legitimate when the people themselves control them is much older. ______________________________________________________________________ Well, somebody's got a way with words! Anyways, the answer is, yes, ABRAHAM Lincoln. Lu, meh!
Love or perish means to essentially, love or suffer.
it means that powerful people get too big for their boots and then get murdered..........sort of
A single vision or as it sometimes is called tunnel vision can mean that you are only looking or focusing on one thing at a time. Many people have single vision when working.
".... It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ......"Gettysburg AddressbyAbraham Lincoln, President of the USANovember 1863