34 Wilde, Evolution of the Mental Faculties. 



of the understanding which compares, consciously or 

 unconsciously, one series of motions or events with 

 another series of motions or events. Hence it follows 

 (i) that as time is a function of the mind, and its measures 

 arbitrary quantities, the natural measure of the quantity 

 of motion in a body is the space through which it moves 

 under a constant resistance. (2) That the quantity of 

 motion . in a substance is not a subject of a priori 

 reasoning, and might be, ontologically, as the third, or 

 any power of the velocity. (3) That the past and the 

 future have no real existence outside the mind of a 

 conscious reflecting agent. (4) To Omniscience, the past 

 and the future are an ever-abiding present.* 



* Kant, Schopenhauer and other metaphysicians are agreed that time 

 itself is a subjective form of the faculty of sense, but they have not succeeded 

 in defining more precisely the nature of the idea. 



