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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
page 119 of 366 (32%)

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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