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On that day they see in a hurry, for the subjęci themselves crossing a thres-
hold, but it is a threshold not it tackles is an immense in Space but in Time. Per- one. haps they imagine their
lives as a journey along a But it will give something road, and every New Year to think about to every per- as a fresh milestone. But
they know they have not son who has ever wondered been travelling in Space but what is Time?" in Time.
When, as at this season, we look back in memory of a certain period of Time, as many of us were doing on New Year's Eve when we talked about the past year, we tend to see it as a kind of track. For most of us 1939 was a rough track, with all man- ****ner of unpleasant bumps and stumbles along it. We hope that 1940 will be a smoother one.
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People nearly always discuss and Mr. Som Fo wish to their whole lives in these terms. announce the wedding of their They see them as a kind of oldest con, Tre-pant, to Miss S. journey. And every day 1. Jay of Homaltau, in California, talk about Time in terms of USA, on Christmas Day. 1039 Space. Thus we Qulport newspapers, please copy"on" or "short." And we go say it Was
on doing this, as people have done it for thousands of years,
The
Hongkong Telegraph. although we have been warned
Tuesday, January 2, 1940. Wyndham St.. Hongkong Telephone: 26015
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[ by those who ought to know that
| Time is something quite different from Space and cannot be dis- cussed in this fashion,
True, we have other meta-
by J. B.
PRIESTLEY
phors. Thus, instead of talking divide into strictly separate about Time as if it were a road moments something that can. on which we travelled, often we not be so divided, the universal talk as if Time itself were mov- flow of Time., the Called Press Assšelations, where ing. "Time marches on," WO serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous cry. arrangement,
Hongliang on the date of publication by
1940
How does Tine march on? You and I can march from
serve HIS 10
cher did actually move?
Take this as
an example:
changes and that you can call. Try to imagine yourækt living in
Time. But it is certainly not single and universal,
And if the Past and Future can be shown to exist as reali- ties, then this official view of Time is all wrong,
Now I happen to believe that "The Past does so exist, but un- fortunately, the argument is coniplícateri by the fact that we pussess memories, not only in- dividual but probably racial, too. On this official view of Time. however, the Future simply con- not be in any kind of existence, has not come into being,
If anybody anywhere has seen even one minute into the Future. then the whole accepted theory comes crashing down.
a world of two dimensions...
you are only capable of re-
cognising length and breadth,
not height. Suppose into this two-dimensional world is plunged sphere (SEE
ABOVE).
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As it passes through your two- dimensional universe non cun- unt recognise it as a sphere al all. To you it is nothing more than a line that changes its position as the sphere wasacs through..
Similarly, we who live in a three- dimensional world may not be able to recognise the existence of a fourth dimension. It may be there, but beyond our powers of perception and mea-. surement. That fourth dimen- sion may be Time.
But now we are back to flow- Now this squids fine, and we ing again, and this will not do. all know, roughly, what is meant For if everything is moving at by it, yet if we stop to examine the same rate how do we know this statement it begins to look there is movement at all? A NEW YEAR faces very queer.
When we are silling in a train is a fact that many people in And down it must come, for it three major wars un two
we know when we are moving,
many places have experienced, in
Thus, when we suddenly know because we see hills and Continents, a situation that London to Richmond. because and cows flash past the
fields
some part of their minds, the what people are going to say to win- all the streets and shops and dows, and as we also know that
Future, is almost unparalleled in houses and telegraph posts in be these things do not behave in
Put another way, we us, I believe this is neither coin- can say that what we should call cidence nor, as a rule, mental the history of civilisation. tween stand still to let as march this fashion
the Future has suddenly become, telepathy, but a reaching for- past them. But if Time does that it is we who are
we rightly infer moving
for one part of them, the Pre- ward of part of our minds into The entire system upon the marching, what is it that
sent, or that their Now has sud- what we call the Future, or, if rapidly past them. But if everydenly immensely widened itself. you like, a sudden widening of which civilisation is based stands still, to
stationary background, so that moved in the same direction at phets or Oriental wizards, beLucky gamblers and people
thing in the total landscape
I am not thinking about pro- the Now. has temporarily collapsed it can be proved that the m-the-same-speed we could never cause-I have never met any of who successfully "play hunches" and can be revived only by
We sometimes refer to the infer we were all on the move at
them. I am thinking about us, are probably more gifted than all, the triumph of the forces flowing stream of Time.“ But
or nearly all of us, for I am con- the rest of us as jumpers into here, again, there is the same which are fighting those of
If, more shrewdly, you say vinced that most of us, oc- the Future. difficulty. We know that a that Time is not simple move cusionally make acquaintance I believe that Time is not evil.
stream flows because we see it ment but Change, or our per with the Future.
single and universal; that the moving between stationary reption of it, you still cannot The twelve months ahead are banks. But if Time is the escape the difficulty. If every W. Danne has pointed out. Future, is not true; that there We do it in dreams, as Mr. accepted view of Past, Present, certain to be critical ones, not stream, what are its banks? thing changed together. we We do it, I believe, in odd are more tirnes than one; and
If anybody declares that this should know enly for the belligerent uations is merely quibbling about, meta- Change. Undoubledly there is
nothing about moments during the day, when that in this bewildering problem we do not happen to be concen- of Time is the key to the major but for the whole world. The phors, I must. passionately dis- something, a before-and-after trading all our attention on the mysteries of this mysterious life Asia Minor earthquake, major | agree.
movement of things, that relates Present.
of ours. catastrophe of the twentieth metaphors, especially those of century though it is. is an in-immense age, are most im- significant event compared with portant. boenuse they are valu
able clues to the imaginations the man-made forces which
and deepest modes of thought threaten destruction and dis-and feeling of whole races of aster.
I
In the first place, popular
men.
in the second place, I am nol The vast upheavals that dre quibbling. Actually, I believe) occurring to-day must inevitably these common ways of referring be followed by the stresses of settling down just as the Turkish earthquake wil be followed by further tremors or settling-up.
*Take comfort. thought that the world has lived through many periods of acute distress and anxiety and that all
was not lout.
we are
WHY the B.E.F. is the
fittest ever
י
Phillips, who
Is
A talk with him and a short course
the arms and legs, and one of the the instructors, after stripping to waist, demonstrated for my benefit.
circum- Of course, in ordinary ntances the spectacle of a grown man fumbling his way about the gym- omnium for all the world like a six- month-old child in a nursery would have had me helpless with laughter. I was, however, su Impressed by the determination to link after the health and welfare of the Toms, Dicks and Harrys of the Army that the comic aspect never occurred to me.
Co-
to Time bring us nearer to the TT was in a spirit of friendly, the beneficial and vitalising effect of truth about it than what might be called the "official" view of terest that I toured the south of Inspector
but somewhat biased, in-physical training until I met Ser- Time, held by most philosophers England Army training centres, led to a unit in Berkshire. and scientists. Let us have a paying especial attention to the of visual Instruction left me with the look at this official view. Time. P.T. (the Army love abbrevia conviction that I am suffering from
told, is the universal tions) staffs and work.
kyphosis of the spine, "mental" round shoulders, and an urgent need for ex- from the movement of everything, from My Brat introduction to the physical tension of my hamstring muscles.
"The banic Iden of phyàlea! training: the Future to the Past. The
In the Army a harmonious Future has not come into exis-I met nineteen famous professional training stoff personnel wus when
ordination of all the muscles," said tence. The Past has ceased to footballers, newly appointed to the
the sergeant-instructor to me. He For the past year the War Cage added that he had not had a cold or exist. All that really exists is rank of sergeant instructor after an have sanctioned experiments in re-
Intensive month's coume.
fu for ten years. the Present, that which can be
medial exercises at this centro, Re-
I nшy have been So, it seems, described as in being when we touching.
uld think that this toe-cruits, on joining, are subjected to You would
arma - bending,
wrong to despise or ignore the ritual chest-twelve weeks special exercises. In-
of touching toes. say "Now."
expanding business would come as All that is real, thon, and not easy as a
that the It's widely recomised Es bonus to these lardyce carriage of the head and
shoulders, curvature something merely anticipated or exponents of professional Soccer.
of the spine, Expeditionary Force sent to France weak abdominal muscles and flat feet
she fittest that has ever left this remembered, is within the.Now, "We've never done anything like are matters which have all been the country, - Credit for this in largely the present moment. The next was their unanimous comment, subject of successful development.
due to the physical training staff. an they reflectively patted muscles moment is still nothing, and the on thighs and back. "It's wonder-gardeners and farm Inbourers suffer business to obey order and fire a
Did you know that nine out di ten
"Broadly speaking, it is a soldier's past moment is nothing. Be-full" saki A Huddersfield Inter-from lateral curvature of the spine, rifle," explained a physical training tween these nothings is the great national with, I thought, a tone of and that curvature of the spine in sergeant. "It has been our business something wo call renlity, life.
Brimnesa qualifying the enthusiasm some form is primarily responsible to pay attention to the individual One tick!--and the present of the statement.
for most of the troubles which affect colder's physique so that he will moment has gone Into nothing, players, they told me, were being
More than 250 famous Games-the feet?
with alacrity, handle olicy orders What is more, the angle of the rearms with steadiness and and from out of the other recruited to the existing physical bools of soldiers standing to attention curacy, and keep going New U.S. Secretary nothing, the Future, has, sprung training staff of the British Army, has been reduced. from 45deg. to I am told that I shall be called
a now version of the something training and garnes
Souls to organise physical 30deg.
up for training in January, always To The Navy
reality.
Why, My dear Watson, because provided there is still a war on. It This does not make much which are laid out 148
In this sector alone 450 acres, in the 45dex. posture placed unneces occurs to me that it would not be
football tary atrain upon the muscles mur- WASHINGTON; Dec. 30 (V2) sense to me, this universal move-grounds thirty hockey grounds and rounding the vertebrae in the middle learning to touch my toes by Christ- in bad idea to anticipate events by President Roosevelt has announced ment from nothing into some-ity cricket pitches, are set apart of the back.
he has selected Mr. Charles thing back to nothing again. Recreation, mark you. The gym-lateral curvature of
mas, without thinking overmuch why for the recreation of the soldiers. One of the exercised to remedy or why not one should do so. la to be Secretary of the Navy, shall be told, however, that this naalum, except for games of netball, pretend one is a baby again and go he' spine is to Swad the late Mr. Claude method of argument is cheating, is reserved for seribus exercise, crawling about the floor on all fours. because I am pretending to I did not fully apprelate, however, There is a certain knack in adjuiling
A now world must replace tho old, whatever the outcome of the three wars now engaging the armies of fourteen countries, Perhaps for hundreds of millions of people, 1940 will be the year
of the now Era,
ac-
·Clive Graham