If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.


The World and the Individual: Nature, man, and the moral order (ed. 1913)


If usually the present age is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of...

If usually the present age is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of...

If usually the present age is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of...

If usually the present age is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of...