he objection that- is nosta e of mind,
But, then, I cannot
however simple, which does not change moment,-Since there is
no consciousness without memory; contfhiaation of a state
-without the addition, to—preseht f eling, otthe memory of past',
moments. It is this whiCh constitute uration. Inner duration is the
continuous life of a memory which prolo •the-psst into the present,
the present either containing within i
distinct form the
ceaselessly growing image Of or, more profoundly, showing
by its continual change of quality the heavier and still heavier load we
drag behind us as we grow older. Without this survival of the past into
the present there would be no duration, but only instantaneity. —Henri
Bergson
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