t, and, on the
other, intension towards the infinitely small. In the case of Time we
call the middle point the NOW, and on one side of this we place the
duration of Time towards the future, and, on the other, we place what
we call the duration of Time towards the past. In the case of Space we
have the here and the _overthere_, equivalent in Time to the present
and the _future_, but, though Time and Space are, as it were,
twin-sisters, upon whose combined action depends our very
consciousness of living, we do not treat them both equally.

It is a remarkable fact that the human race on this particular world
has, in some inexplicable way, come to look upon the future as
non-existent until we arrive at, and are able to perceive, with our
senses, what is happening there; this is all the more inexplicable
when we realise that in traversing Space we certainly have to _move_
to get anywhere, but in traversing Time we have nothing equivalent to
movement. This curious way of looking upon the future as non-existent,
may be another sign that our race is still in its infancy, but is more
probably caused by human beings having always hitherto looked upon
Time not only as a reality but as actually moving or extending along a
line from past to future eternity; whereas, under our present outlook,
we have no consciousness of the existence of Time except by intervals
between successive thoughts; our consciousness of the very existence
of Time is based upon our Physical Ego repeating the _present_, by
saying to itself the words, Now--Now--Now; but there is nothing that
can be called movement in this, any more than if you are standing
still and saying, Here--Here--Here--relating to Space. Time is, as it
were, "marking time," and as the present in time is common to all
space, Time is "marking time" everywhere, and the Now therefore
includes the whole of the past and the whole of future eternity
everywhere. We shall get a clearer understanding of this later on;
meanwhile, we are face to face with the fact that we look upon the
future as non-existent.

This curious state of things is probably only accidental to the
present stage of development of the human mind, and may, at any time,
be rectified by perhaps either a slight rearrangement of that slender
network of nerves upon which depends our faculty of thinking, or the
joining together of a few microscopical filaments attached to the
cells in the grey cortical layer, or even a single bridge