ABSTRACT
For twenty-four-hundred years philosophic thought has been concerned with the problem of the relation of space and time. Drop into any of the scientific societies of to-day and you will find them discussing whether space is finite or infinite, whether there is any difference between rest and motion, whether length is absolute or relative, whether time and space have
real existence, which are the very questions discussed by Pythagoras and Zeno in the Greek cities of Asia Minor. Now the time spent in these speculations has not been wasted, although it has led to no definite conclusion, for out of it have grown our mathematics and physics. The Wandering Jew, who is the only mortal having the privilege of attending the schools of the Eleatics and those of the present day, would ob serve one difference, that modern scientists try to put their theories to the test of experiment wherever pos sible, while the ancient were content with thinking them out.
