Only later would it be revealed that he has accomplished this mastery by putting himself under the dominion of a machine with imperious demands all its own. Here was man’s declaration of independence from the sun, new proof of his mastery over himself and his surroundings. There are few greater revolutions in human experience than this movement from the seasonal or the ‘temporary’ hour to the equal hour.

3) Few revolutions in human experience exceed that of mechanical time It came when man, playing with time, began measuring it off into shorter slices. The first step in making night more like day was taken long before people became accustomed to artificial lighting. ‘In the dead vest and middle of the night’ was when Shakespeare and other dramatists placed their crimes. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’ Few subjects have been more enticing to the literary imagination. 200 B.C.), ‘for he may be a demon.’ ‘I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day,’ announced Jesus (John 9:4-5), ‘the night cometh, when no man can work. ‘Never greet a stranger in the night,’ warned the Talmud (c. But for most of the human centuries night was a synonym for the darkness that brought all the menace of the unknown. Life in a modern city is always a time of mixed light and darkness.

Our century of artificial light tempts us to forget the meaning of night. No change in daily experience is more emptying than the loss of the sense of contrast between day and night, light and dark. 2) Artificial light tempts us to forget the meaning of night Communities of time would bring the first communities of knowledge, ways to share discovery, a common frontier on the unknown. The discoveries of time and space would become one continuous dimension. The flow of shadows, sand, water, and time itself, translated into the clock’s staccato, because a useful measure of man’s movements across the planet. Only by marking off months, weeks, and years, days and hours, minutes and seconds, would mankind be liberated from the cyclical monotony of nature. The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience. 1) The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience

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