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JAMA. 1970;212(9):1517-1518.

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There is an old metaphysical concept, "Time is the measure of change." The statement is neat, it is pat. One looks at it, recognizes it, tucks it away, and then forgets it because there is no reason to remember it. Time is simply a condition of human existence; so is change. Time is orderly, automatic, progressive, and unfelt; so must therefore be change. True, we may pause at the occasional significant moment in our life, but then only to look back and relax in satisfaction. Though we may briefly feel the accumulation of time upon us, we comfort ourselves with the thought that as the track behind us lengthens, so increases our security in our present, our certainty in our future, and all else for which we work; more will be only a matter of traveling farther.

Or at least that is the way it seemed in the days of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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