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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