nontemporaneous

Updated: July 22, 2025

But the message of Thoreau, though his fervency may be inconstant and his human appeal not always direct, is, both in thought and spirit, as universal as that of any man who ever wrote or sang as universal as it is nontemporaneous as universal as it is free from the measure of history, as "solitude is free from the measure of the miles of space that intervene between man and his fellows."

Charles Ives - Essays Before a Sonata