‘The
supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when
one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically
filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of
your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly
singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity
itself!
For
remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either
more or less than you receive.
Talk
about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of
wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect. Genius is never rewarded by even an
extra hour a day. And there is no punishment. Waste your infinitely precious
commodity as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you.
No mysterious power will say:—“This man is a fool, if not a knave. He does not
deserve time; he shall be cut off at the meter.” It is more certain than
consols, and payment of income is not affected by Sundays. Moreover, you cannot
draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing
moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You cannot waste the
next hour; it is kept for you.
I
said the affair was a miracle. Is it not?’
Very thought provoking.
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