Now the nature of the ideal being was everlasting, but to bestow this attribute in its fulness upon a creature was impossible. Henry Vaughan's lines, as Bertrand Russell points out, 3 are evidently suggested by Plato's Timaeus in which Plato states: Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world Like a great ring of pure and endless light,Īnd round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years
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What would a poet, for instance, say about it? Let us see whether a symbolic representation of eternity is more amenable to our understanding or imagination. This is an interesting definition no doubt, but what is "infinity"? "No beginning and no end?" What is time that has no beginning and no end? Time cannot be defined without eternity nor eternity without time? Is eternity time going on forever in two directions, past-ward and future-ward? Is time eternity chopped to pieces or numbers? Living in the Light of Eternity IĮTERNITY is, as a philosopher defines it, "an infinite extent of time, in which every event is future at one time, present at another, past at another." 1
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