700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 13
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 13
Time plays an important part in every action of every person throughout the day, yet Time is something about which we know very little and about which we understand even less. If, in our desire to understand a little better the real meaning of Time, we read a modern book on the subject, it is probably the experience of many of us that we understand it even less at the end of our reading than at the beginning that we know, indeed, very little about the world in which we live. We read, for example, that everything that has been still is, that everything which is to come in the future already exists. We read that the events which make up life are like the situations along the railway line. A train is running along that line towards one of these stations. It reaches the station, it perhaps waits there for a very little while, and then it passes on, leaving the station behind it. But the station existed before the train reached it and it continues to exist after the train has left it. In t…
