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Updated: June 13, 2025
But what we thus immediately experience or concretely divine is very limited in duration, whereas abstractly we are able to conceive eternities. Could we feel a million years concretely as we now feel a passing minute, we should have very little employment for our conceptual faculty.
As I was listening to the merriment of the sooty buffoons, I happened to cast my eyes up to the ceiling, and through an open semicircular window a bright solitary star looked me calmly in the eyes. It was a strange intrusion of the vast eternities beckoning from the infinite spaces.
Millions of men in thousands of years are included in this holocaust of past time, eras of savagery, Assyrian civilizations, Christian butcheries, the Czar yet supreme, the Turk yet alive. And how is it at the other pole of mystery, where life rises into a heavenly vision of eternities of love to come?
A man who has seen the Himalayas will not be much overwhelmed by the height of Helvellyn. They who look out into the eternities have the true measuring rod and standard by which to estimate the duration and intensity of the things that are present.
Drusus saw the naked steel of their swords flashing before his eyes; he knew that the barge was slipping away in the current. It was a time of seconds, but of seconds expanded for him into eternities.
As this went on oh, eternities it seemed, the time dragged so drearily all those faces became as wax, and I seemed sitting with a congress of the dead. At last, faint and far and weird and slow, came a "boom! boom! boom!" a distant bell tolling midnight.
You can hardly call her a corpse, though the human beings who inhabited her, and were her soul, may have fled into the far eternities; and so we felt that night, as we came down along the woodland road, with the north-west wind hurling dead branches and showers of crisp oak-leaves about our heads; till suddenly, as we staggered out of the wood, we came upon such a piece of chiaroscuro as would have baffled Correggio, or Rembrandt, himself.
All that can surprise us is that so repressive and salutary a doctrine has left a prey to so many horrible crimes men who have so little time to live, and who see themselves squeezed between two eternities. A deformed child is born absolutely imbecile, it has no ideas and lives without ideas; we have seen examples of this.
There in the distance a cloud dislimns which but now lured me to death with its girlish smile. What do I care now? The struggle endures for eternities. The wind drives me on. I avoid the clefts, wade through the springs; I measure the distances, for now I have to jump.... The depths are yawning about me. The ice under my feet begins to rock.
There was that about the pose that gave me the impression of an eternal watchfulness of having warded that dismal place, through unknown eternities. Slowly, the monster became plainer to me; and then, suddenly, my gaze sprang from it to something further off and higher among the crags. For a long minute, I gazed, fearfully.
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