Excerpt from Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. 16: Containing the Papers Read Before the Society During the Thirty-Seventh Session, 1915-1916 The subject which I have chosen for my address is one which seems to me to raise the metaphysical problem in its clearest and most definite form. The moment of experience is the present moment, the moment in which what we are actually experiencing is contained, as distinguished from an abstract mathematical moment of time which has no content at all. Whatever we experience is now, and only what is now is immediate experience. But the word now, as used in ordinary discourse, is vague. Anyone unexpectedly asked to say what length Of clock-time he associates with his moment Of experience would probably hesitate and be in doubt whether to assign to it three or four minutes or something less than a second. The moment Of experience is not vague, however, when its content is considered; it is then sharply distinguished from all other moments. It is the moment during which experience is sense experience. It is the only moment the experience Of which may be analysed by the psychologist as it occurs, and the experience which occurs in it is the only experience which exists as immediate experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.