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of Time by an argument the force of which depends still more 

 directly upon the conditions that we have discussed in the last 

 paragraph. There can be no doubt (so runs the argument) 

 that events occur simultaneously ; that is, that they occupy 

 occasionally the same place in the temporal series. But it is 

 impossible to conceive that this may be so unless their place in 

 the series is fixed by their correlation with a single term of 

 some independent series. This independent series with which 

 the events of the World are correlated (just as the matter of 

 the world is correlated with points of space) is the series of 

 absolute moments of time. 



