Judging from experience, we fiiid, that violent pain or 

 anxiety, and not the mere number df succeeding ideas, 

 apparently lengthens ont notion of duration, or makes us 

 think time longer than it really is. The number of ideas, 

 that Occupy our imagination, ia reading an agreeable 

 book, nay, the number of letters of which each line of it 

 consi$ts, and which must; successively be perceived, must 

 be very considerable; and yet the time seems short wliile 

 we read it.* 



■, ■■ .oniiijj vliiri'jj'j JiMrERNI5BY-<.r.[u . 



Dmation^ when that of the Supreme Being is meant, 

 denotes existence exempt from any commencement or ter- 

 mination. This modei ojf existence ■. i» what: is commonly 

 called eternal. It is incomprehensible and inconceivable, 

 but implies no contradiction; for the notion of existence, 

 and that of absence of commencement, and termination, 

 are so far fromi being contradictory to each other, that a 

 Being, so circumstanced, has bieeh demonstrated, to exist.— 

 It is intelligible, though imperfectly. 



By this definition it .appears, that suecessioii is essen- 

 tially excluded from the notion- of eternity; for succession! 

 necessarily implies a begirmingy as wiii pneBently be -seen. 



VOL. X. F f And, 



* Whoever wishes for a more ampk aooountitof-TiBj*; will receive abun- 

 dant satisfaction, on perusing the profound, and yet penspicuous treatise of ' 

 Dr. Watson, Jun. on Tivie, published by JohfVson, in \ri%s, iuu 



