flowing onward like a sluggish river, bearing upon its bosom nations and empires and civilizations and men. We visualize this sticky stream as an entity and ourselves as helplessly stuck in it for as long as our earthly lives endure. Or again, by a simple shift in our thinking we picture time as a revealer of the shape of things to come, as when we say, “Time will tell.” Or we imagine it a benign physician and comfort ourselves with the thought, “Time is a great healer.” All this is so much a part