ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the causes of some of our persistent perplexities with regard to time and change. A treatment of the puzzles of time will also serve to illustrate a treatment which might be applied to many other questions and difficulties. The puzzles of Augustine lead on very naturally to the problems of Zeno, or rather to a certain very general difficulty which seems to be involved in every one of Zeno's paradoxes. The puzzles are also important in that philosophical difficulties seem to flourish more readily in the temporal field than in almost any other. It would be safe to say that rapid change and the 'nothingness of the past' are things which can always be relied on spontaneously to vex a large number of unsophisticated people, and so to constitute one of the standing mysteries of our universe.
