...historical detritus of an earlier different patterning, or the effect of English analogy, or both. touching — the "present" while in the non-sensuous...seems the one least in harmony with the paramount temporal relation. It is as if pressed into various and not wholly congruous duties. One duty is to...

...consciousness is "getting later," changing certain relations in an irreversible manner. In this "latcring" or "durating" there seems to me to be a paramount...configuration of points on a line. This is what our general objcctification tendency leads us to do and our tense system confirms. In English the present tense...