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and it was precisely in such fields
of thought of as this distinction of past and
future time that his mind was the most
thoroughly trained. So gigantic is his power of
thought that those critics may almost be excused
who hold to be impossible that all of the books
that have come down to us as his should all
have been produced by one man. I am
ashamed to have to confess that I shared the
general opinion of Aristotle's childish
naïveté in these passages, until the further
progress of my own studies forced me to
the very substance of what Aristotle says.
The past is ended and done. The future is
endless and can never have been done.
To be sure, if we regard past time