Space has commonly been pictured as an unbounded receptacle for all that is and all that takes place, and time, as the tally sheet of the onsweep of an active world. Free room for the great deployments of the cosmos have been thought to be offered by unlimited space and ample duration for their evolutions in unrestricted time.

In: Charles Lane Poor, Gravitation Versus Relativity: A Non-technical Explanation of the, Fundamental Principles of Gravitational Astronomy and a Critical, Examination of the Astronomical Evidence Cited as Proof of the Generalized Theory of Relativity, A Preliminary Essay (p. viii) (1922)