"We now perceive every [idea], as it passes, through a small aperture separately, as in the camera obscura, and this we call time; but at the conclusion of this state we may probably exist in a manner quite different; the window may be thrown open, the whole prospect appear at one view, and all this apparatus, which we call time, be totally done away."
Disquisitions on Several Subjects
Text from Soame Jenyns, <u>Disquisitions on Several Subjects</u> (London: Charles Baldwyn, 1822). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HNgNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;