‘Never greet a stranger in the night,’ warned the Talmud (c. But for most of the human centuries night was a synonym for the darkness that brought all the menace of the unknown. Life in a modern city is always a time of mixed light and darkness. Our century of artificial light tempts us to forget the meaning of night. No change in daily experience is more emptying than the loss of the sense of contrast between day and night, light and dark. 2) Artificial light tempts us to forget the meaning of night Communities of time would bring the first communities of knowledge, ways to share discovery, a common frontier on the unknown. The discoveries of time and space would become one continuous dimension. The flow of shadows, sand, water, and time itself, translated into the clock’s staccato, because a useful measure of man’s movements across the planet. Only by marking off months, weeks, and years, days and hours, minutes and seconds, would mankind be liberated from the cyclical monotony of nature. The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience. 1) The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience
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