Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
page 119 of 366 (32%)
page 119 of 366 (32%)
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Get a little of it for yourself. Drop your club, your street corner, your gossipy boarding-house table. Drop your sheep life and try being a man. It may improve you. THERE SHOULD BE A MONUMENT TO TIME Time has no real existence. Yet time is man's most precious possession. Time is defined as a "succession of events." What we call an hour means certain movements in the machinery of a watch. What we call a day means one revolution of the earth upon its axis, the turning of its surface toward the light of the sun. Time is the most mysterious factor in our lives and thoughts. It never had a beginning, it cannot possibly have an end. Time only exists for us in the actual moment in which we live. Yet our thoughts are in the time of past and future, and hardly ever on the actual reality of the moment. With the ceasing of our own consciousness, time ceases, so far as we are concerned. If you go to sleep and sleep soundly, you cannot tell when you awake whether you have slept a minute or an hour. Time stops when YOU cease to observe the succession of |
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