The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.

CHAP. XXII.

Of Time.

LAst of the Incorporealls is Time. Time is, according to ma∣ny of the Stoicks, the motion of it selfe, not of heaven, and had no beginning of generation. Chrysippus saith, that Time is the measure of slownesse or swiftnesse. Zeno defined it the intervall of motion, and measure of slownesse and swiftnesse, according to which, all things were and are.

Possidonius saith, that some are wholly infinite, as all Time; some only in part, as the past and future; for they are joyned to∣gether by the present. He defined Time the intervall of motion, or the measure of swiftnesse and slownesse, one part of it being present, the other future, the present connected to the future by something like a point. It is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 attributed to the least part of Time that falleth under sense, subsisting according to the difference of past and future.

Chrysippus saith, that Time is the intervall of motion, the measure of swiftnesse and slownesse; a consequent intervall to the worlds motion, according to which all things are, and are moved, unlosse rather there be a two-fold Time, as the Earth and Sea, and Vacuity and Universe, have the same names with their parts. And as vacuity is every way infinite, so Time is both waies infinite, for the present and future have no end. He like∣wise asserts, that no entire present is Time, for continuous things being divided into infinite, Time likewise admitteth of the same division; so that no Time is properly present, but so called, after a lesse accurate manner. The present only is subsistent, unlesse it be understood as of Categorems; as, walking is attributed to him that walketh, but not to him that sitteth or lyeth. Thus much for the STOICALL PHILOSOPHY.