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1 What I mean by emotion felt towards a thing, future, 2 present, and past, I explained in III. xviii., notes. i. and ii., 3 which see. 4 5 (But I should here also remark, that we can only distinctly 6 conceive distance of space or time up to a certain definite limit; 7 that is, all objects distant from us more than two hundred 8 feet, or whose distance from the place where we are exceeds that 9 which we can distinctly conceive, seem to be an equal distance 10 from us, and all in the same plane; so also objects, whose time 11 of existing is conceived as removed from the present by a longer 12 interval than we can distinctly conceive, seem to be all equally 13 distant from the present, and are set down, as it were, to the 14 same moment of time.) 15 16