Alexander, Samuel (1859-1938) Spinoza and Time (1921)
Being the Fourth "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Sunday, May 1, 1929 - Nissan 23, 5681
V. Time as an Attribute of God: Consequences of this Hypothesis
...the real greatness and spirit of a man may often be best appreciated by asking not what he said himself but what he may lead us to say.
...According, then, to the one method all things are, as Spinoza says, thinking things, and in the end, paradoxical as it sounds to say so, Time is the mind of Space. According to the other, mind is the time of its brain, life the time of the living parts of the living body and the like. On either method we realize the same truth that all the world and everything in it are constructed on the same plan, which betrays itself most plainly in our thinking bodies. But the Spinozistic method is a comparison of the modes with one another ; the other method views the modes in the light of the ultimate or a priori reality from which they derive.
V. Time as an Attribute of God: Consequences of this Hypothesis
...the real greatness and spirit of a man may often be best appreciated by asking not what he said himself but what he may lead us to say.
...According, then, to the one method all things are, as Spinoza says, thinking things, and in the end, paradoxical as it sounds to say so, Time is the mind of Space. According to the other, mind is the time of its brain, life the time of the living parts of the living body and the like. On either method we realize the same truth that all the world and everything in it are constructed on the same plan, which betrays itself most plainly in our thinking bodies. But the Spinozistic method is a comparison of the modes with one another ; the other method views the modes in the light of the ultimate or a priori reality from which they derive.