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"But time, having no existence in itself, can only be measured by the mechanics of nature. By the sands in a sandglass, the phases of the moon, by the rising and the sinking of the sun, by the life left in Lais, we count duration. But only by reference to these, and not by any absolute called "time," do we measure our past, count our days, and estimate our future in the ever present Now."

"But time, having no existence in itself, can only be measured by the mechanics of nature. By the sands in a sandglass, the phases of the moon, by the rising and the sinking of the sun, by the life left in Lais, we count duration. But only by reference to these, and not by any absolute called "time," do we measure our past, count our days, and estimate our future in the ever present Now.