| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: happened to us, or the consciousness of feelings which we are experiencing.
Like space, it is without limit, for whatever beginning or end of time we
fix, there is a beginning and end before them, and so on without end. We
speak of a past, present, and future, and again the analogy of space
assists us in conceiving of them as coexistent. When the limit of time is
removed there arises in our minds the idea of eternity, which at first,
like time itself, is only negative, but gradually, when connected with the
world and the divine nature, like the other negative infinity of space,
becomes positive. Whether time is prior to the mind and to experience, or
coeval with them, is (like the parallel question about space) unmeaning.
Like space it has been realized gradually: in the Homeric poems, or even
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: motion.
In this inquiry Faraday worked with steel magnets, the force of
which varies with the distance from the magnet. He then sought a
uniform field of magnetic force, and found it in space as affected
by the magnetism of the earth. His next memoir, sent to the Royal
Society, December 31, 1851, is 'on the employment of the Induced
Magnetoelectro Current as a test and measure of magnetic forces.'
He forms rectangles and rings, and by ingenious and simple devices
collects the opposed currents which are developed in them by
rotation across the terrestrial lines of magnetic force. He varies
the shapes of his rectangles while preserving their areas constant,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: So the one seized upon the ale and the other upon the pigeon pie,
and nothing was heard for a while but the munching of food
and the gurgle of ale as it left the skin.
At last, after a long time had passed thus, Robin pushed
the food from him and heaved a great sigh of deep content,
for he felt as though he had been made all over anew.
"And now, good friend," quoth he, leaning upon one elbow,
"I would have at thee about that other matter of seriousness
of which I spoke not long since."
"How!" said the Beggar reproachfully, "thou wouldst surely not talk
of things appertaining to serious affairs upon such ale as this!"
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
