eceiving himself and acting in an un-reasonable manner. Ceitainly, but theaverage man is not a reasonable being, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 15 and John Bull knows this and is try-ing to fool the average Englishman. Now, as to the methods of measur-ing time, we must use circumstantialevidence for the… … The rising and the going down of thesun—the lengthening shadows, etc.,must come first, and we are on safeground here, for savages still use primi- notice their shortening and lengtheningshadows to this day. When the shadowof a man shortens more and moreslowly till it appears to be fixed, the 16…
Time · Clocks and watches
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