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Show Time's Passage Not Reckoned in Hours An English astronomer has advanced ad-vanced the thought that "time does not, In fact, exist." It is rather difficult diffi-cult for the human mind to comprehend compre-hend such a theory, says Thrift Magazine. Maga-zine. . Longfellow, In "The Hyperion," asked the question: "What is time?" and answered It in this manner: "The shadow on the dial, the running of the sand day and night, summer and winter, win-ter, months, years, centuries; these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time Itself. Time Is the life of the soul." The theory that time "does not pass," or, as men say, "fly," Is not a new one. There Is In an ancient graveyard In New York a tombstone containing these lines: Time flies, 'tis said, Nay gossip, say not soe. Time stays, we goe. Nathaniel Hawthorne, In the "Marble "Mar-ble Faun," wrote: 'Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind." |