Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-27

!. move over the arc in past time, or ]
n future time? When at the mIodl
point, was it past or future lime
Will it leave the middle point in pas
or future time2
e The fallacy consists in making
the thing measured and the mean
e of measurement identical. Th,
Point, the Line, and the Present
7 are not identical. The present car
be divided; an infnitesimal can b.
divided; but division can not ami
J hilate.
can act that is literally instanta
neous, state beginning and end.
ing in the same instant, and occu-
plying no time at oil, is absolutely
inconceivable. We are conscious Of
present. We are conscious OF
certain acts involving the relations
between one another of now, before
and after. The passing and pres
ent acts and states of our own
spirits, and the coincident opera
tions and phenomena of the mate
rial world are the only time-objects
of which we have direct cog>
nizance.
"(5) Past objects are gone. Future
| objects do not yet exist. Present OBJ
jects alone directly confront the mind.
| The past must be re- called by mem
DRY ; the uture must be autici pated in
| the imagination"
Again, Mr.. Sherwood attempts to
| prove that existence is Independent of
| time. He here again assumes that one
entire half of a period Is gone, and
the other half is yet to come. And
from this mere assumption he declares
thai, There is no length or duration
of time ever present with US it is
plain tnat existence can not depend
upon it; therefore, existence is indie
pendent of time"
"Space and time" says DR.. Porter,
''are Known by intuition as the Deces-
sary conditions of the existence and
the conception of all objects and events.
(5) Every object and event as has
already been explained, has proper
ties or attributes which imply the
existence of these entities. In
knowing that these objects exist we
know that time and space exist as
their actual conditions. In con-
ceiving of these objects or events as
real or possible, we must conceive
of them as related to space and time
and of course, must recognize time
and space of the logical conditions
of their concepts"
(6) while then, it il true that We |
can neither generalize nor define |
space and time, because the very attri- |
bntes which we must employ imply |
both it is true on the other hand, that |
we cannot generalize or define any OBJ
ject whatever without recognizing
both, and therefore time and space |
must enter as the material into all our |
concepts"
CalderWOod defines time as "a cor
relation of existence"
Hamilton calls it 1.-The image or con-
cept of certain correlation of exis-
tence."
(O These able philosophers differ
very much from Mr.. Sherwood who
makes existence Independent of
time.
Time present is our only lot"
w. E. F. MILBURN.
Athens, Tenn, Jan. 81, 1879.
Mr.. EDITOR: I sent the fore
going article to the editor of the
Tusculum Record on the 31st of
January, 1879. On the 9th of
F February, in the Tusculum Record,
an article was published over the
initials of R. N. E., containing
much of the matter that is in the :
article. / Immediately
wrote to the editor of the Record
lot to publish my article unless he
the date of Jan. 31st,
.879.
But instead, he mutilates the
.rticle and publishes it without any /
late.
l wrote for my manuscript, which
vas returned with the following ex-
q
'TUsCULUM, Tenn, Feb. Is.
"DEAR SIR: 4 x
The men connected with our office g
'a0e preference to r. N. Els article,
to- 8
From that language it is evident
hat beyond question that the fore
,oing article was in the possession
# the "men connected with the
'fice" before the publication of R. c
\. Els article, otherwise prefer +
nee could not have been shown.
Therefore the matter in the above
Lrticle that is the same and similar
o R. n. Els was not, and could
lot have been copied from him.
The parts marked by figures and I
n different type was omitted and
he following is the editors ex~ E
,lanation:
~ Left out because in R.
7. Els" E
go Superfuous matter" :
"(3) You have copied from Prof.
)lney without giving him credit
just state here the matter was 6
n quotation points. I quoted it G
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