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In this case the part may be cogredient with another duration which is part of the given duration, though it is not cogredient with the given duration itself. Such a part would be cogredient if its existence were sufficiently prolonged in that time-system.
This assertion of cogredience is peculiarly evident when the duration to which the perceived event is cogredient is the same as the duration which is the present whole of nature in other words, when the event and the percipient event are both cogredient to the same duration.
It is not true that all the parts of an event cogredient with a duration are also cogredient with the duration. The relation of cogredience may fail in either of two ways. One reason for failure may be that the part does not extend throughout the duration.
The other reason for failure arises from the four-dimensional extension of events so that there is no determinate route of transition of events in linear series. For example, the tunnel of a tube railway is an event at rest in a certain time-system, that is to say, it is cogredient with a certain duration. A train travelling in it is part of that tunnel, but is not itself at rest.
When the bulk of the events perceived are cogredient in a duration other than that of the percipient event, the percipience may include a double consciousness of cogredience, namely the consciousness of the whole within which the observer in the train is 'here, and the consciousness of the whole within which the trees and bridges and telegraph posts are definitely 'there. Thus in perceptions under certain circumstances the events discriminated assert their own relations of cogredience.
To sum up, a duration and a percipient event are essentially involved in the general character of each observation of nature, and the percipient event is cogredient with the duration. Our knowledge of the peculiar characters of different events depends upon our power of comparison.
If an event e be cogredient with a duration d, and d′ be any duration which is part of d. Then d′ belongs to the same time-system as d. Also d′ intersects e in an event e′ which is part of e and is cogredient with d′. Let P be any event-particle lying in a given duration d. Consider the aggregate of events in which P lies and which are also cogredient with d.
Such an event begins with the duration and ends with it. Furthermore every event which begins with the duration and ends with it, extends throughout the duration. This is an axiom based on the continuity of events. Every event which is cogredient with a duration extends throughout that duration.
Given the requisite biological character, the event in its character of a percipient event selects that duration with which the operative past of the event is practically cogredient within the limits of the exactitude of observation.
The stream of events which form the continuous series of situations of the electron is entirely self-determined, both as regards having the intrinsic character of being the series of situations of that electron and as regards the time-systems with which its various members are cogredient, and the flux of their positions in their corresponding durations.
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