...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...

...species may be denominated Learned Nonsense. The following is an example of this kind from Cowley;— " Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last." The Fifth is the Profound, and which occurs most frequently in political writings. " 'T is agreed,"...

...the entire value of one of his own learned disquisitions on a Past Eternity into this expression : " To which the ingenious Mr. Cowley alludes in his description...nothing past, But an eternal NOW does always last." Dr. Johnson, on the contrary, deals copiously in extracts illustrative of nearly all the extravagant...

...about it, goddess, and about it."t 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 lust."} What an insatiable appetite has this bastard-philosophy for absurdity and contradiction! A...

...bad'st me tread The beaten path and broad, that leads right on * The same expression is used by Cowley : "Nothing Is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last/1 t Milton's father was well skilled in music. 'o opulence, nor didst condemn thy son 0 the insipid...

...darkness there : On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide. No circling ocean doth swift time divide. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. There sits the Almighty, first of all, and end, Whom nothing but himself can comprehend : Who with...

...may he denominated Learned Nonsense. The following is an example of this kind from Cowley : — *' Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always lusts* In this sentence there is nothing hut ahsurdity and contradiction. A now that lasts ; an eternal...