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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER III
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We must remember however that the character of passage is peculiarly associated with the extension of events, and that from this extension spatial transition arises just as much as temporal transition.

The discussion of this point is reserved for a later lecture but it is necessary to remember it now that we are proceeding to discuss the application of the concept of passage beyond nature, otherwise we shall have too narrow an idea of the essence of passage.
It is necessary to dwell on the subject of sense-awareness in this connexion as an example of the way in which time concerns mind, although measurable time is a mere abstract from nature and nature is closed to mind.
Consider sense-awareness--not its terminus which is nature, but sense-awareness in itself as a procedure of mind.

Sense-awareness is a relation of mind to nature.

Accordingly we are now considering mind as a relatum in sense-awareness.

For mind there is the immediate sense-awareness and there is memory.


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