700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 14
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 14
You would therefore make the statement that a certain sound took place at, say, five seconds past the hour, I would say that it happened at about two or three seconds past the hour, while the people at the works would say that it took place just at the hour. So that when we say that a certain thing happened at a certain time we really mean that it happened at that time in relation to our own position at that moment. The relation of time to distance and the relation of immediate time to time as a whole are subjects in which people grow more and more interested. Two interesting plays have been written round the idea that everything that has happened in the past is still in existence, the point made by the plays being that a person who has a certain special sense highly developed can go back into the past and experience old and past events. But interesting as these ideas may be, there is another and much more usual point of view from which to consider time. For all the general purposes o…
