succession or duration, but a pluralism of many kinds of things 
co-existing. “It is what happens when the corn matures or a 
sheep grows up. . . . It is the natural process that takes place 
while living substance acts out its life drama.” Therefore, as 
many kinds of time exist for them as there are kinds of life. 
This, also, is the kind of time-sense held by the modern 
physicist and scientist. They no longer try to contain events in 
time, but think of each thing as making its own time and its 
own space. Moreover, now that we live electrically in an 
instantaneous world, space and time interpenetrate each other 
totally in a space-time world. In the same way, the painter, 
since Cézanne, has recovered the plastic image  by which all of 
the senses coexist in a unified pattern. Each object and each 
set of objects engenders its own unique space by the relations 
it has among others visually or musically. When this awareness 
recurred in the Western world, it was denounced as the merging