...punctum stans, or nttnc semper .stans, and a celebrated poet has thus expressed it : Nothing there is to come, And nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last.* These have been pronounced to be words which have no meaning ; but with the same critic we must acknowledge,...

...contracted to a point, and the whole history of experience and events is rolled up like the morning mist. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past ; But an eternal NOW does ever last." To assert, that these laws of thought have a subjective reality, sufficient for our purposes,...

...Explain upon a thing till all men doubt it ; And write about it, goddess, and about it. "f » Example. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last."* Analysis. What an insatiable thirst hath this bastard philosophy for absurdity and contradiction !...

...about it, goddess, and about it7. Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley : Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last8. What insatiable appetite has this bastard philosophy for absurdity and contradiction ! A now...

...about it, goddess, and about it.f Of the same kind of school-metaphysics are these lines of Cowley; Nothing is there to come, and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.} What an insatiable appetite has this bastard-philosophy for absurdity and contradiction ! A now that...

...contracted to a point, and the whole history of experience and events is rolled up like the morning mist. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past ; But an eternal NOW does ever last." To assert, that these laws of thought have a subjective reality, sufficient for our purposes,...

...contracted to a point, and the whole history of experience and events is rolled up like the morning mist. " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past ; But an eternal NOW does ever last.'' To assert, that these laws of thought have a subjective reality, sufficient for our purposes,...

...How much of theological mysticism has resulted from regarding the stanza of Cowley, that with God " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now docs always last," as if it were a scientific formula, not less exact than poetical ? How much of ethical...

...of God. Uf Lucifer see /«/'. xxxi. 143, and xxxiv. 18, and note. (51.) Thus Cowley, Davideis, bi " There sits th' Almighty, First of all, and End ; Whom nothing but Himself can comprehend." And Dryden, Reliyio Laid. '- How can the less the Greater comprehend, Or finite reason reach infinity...

...equal of God. Uf Lucifer see Inf. xxxi. 143, and xxxiv. 18, and note. (51.) Thus Cowley, Damdeis, bi " There sits th' Almighty, First of all, and End ; Whom nothing but Himself can comprehend." And Dryden, Religio Laid, " How can the less the Greater comprehend, Or finite reason reach infinity...