Our own present has its antecedents and its consequents, and for the imaginary being all nature has its antecedent and its consequent durations.

Thus the only difference in this respect between us and the imaginary being is that for him all nature shares in the immediacy of our present duration.
The conclusion of this discussion is that so far as sense-awareness is concerned there is a passage of mind which is distinguishable from the passage of nature though closely allied with it.

We may speculate, if we like, that this alliance of the passage of mind with the passage of nature arises from their both sharing in some ultimate character of passage which dominates all being.

But this is a speculation in which we have no concern.

The immediate deduction which is sufficient for us is that--so far as sense-awareness is concerned--mind is not in time or in space in the same sense in which the events of nature are in time, but that it is derivatively in time and in space by reason of the peculiar alliance of its passage with the passage of nature.