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What's past is prologue. " What's past is prologue " is a quotation of William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea that history sets the context for the present. The quotation is engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, [1] and is commonly used by the military when ...
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a fictional character in Charles Dickens 's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is the last of the three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption . Following a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge receives nocturnal ...
The Ghost of Christmas Past is a fictional character in Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is one of three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption . Following a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge receives nocturnal visits from three ...
The Ghost of Christmas Present is a fictional character in Charles Dickens ' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Ghost is one of three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption . Following a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, Scrooge receives nocturnal visits from three ...
As time passes, the moment that was once the present becomes part of the past, and part of the future, in turn, becomes the new present. In this way time is said to pass, with a distinct present moment moving forward into the future and leaving the past behind. One view of this type, presentism, argues that only the present exists. The present ...
Past and Present is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. [1] It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing ...
Past and Present (1843) was written as a response to the economic crisis which began in the early 1840s. This book, like its predecessor Chartism and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), presents a further analysis of the condition-of-England question. Carlyle contrasted the medieval past and the turbulent Victorian present of the 1830s and 1840s. For ...
In a letter of condolence to the Besso family, Albert Einstein wrote "Now he has again preceded me a little in parting from this strange world. This has no importance. For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion."