Good evening and welcome to boring books for bedtime. I hope tonight's installment provides

all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep for once.

So lie back, adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath. And off we go. In honor of the new year, this evening we're talking about time.

We're reading Time and Clocks,

a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time,

by H.H. Cunningham, M.A.C.B. M. I. E.

With many illustrations.

London Archibald Constable and Co, limited, 16 James Street, Haymarket, 1906, 1906. Let's begin.

Time and clocks, an introduction.

When we read the works of Homer or Virgil or Plato or Turned to the later productions of Dante of Shakespeare of Milton and the host of writers and

poets who have done so much to instruct and amuse us and to make our lives good and agreeable.

We are apt to look with some disappointment upon present times.

And when we turn to the field of art and compare Greek statues and Gothic or Renaissance architecture

with our modern efforts, we must feel bound to admit our inferiority to our ancestors.

And this leads us perhaps to question whether our age is the equal of those which have gone before or whether the human intellect

is not on the decline.

This feeling, however, proceeds from a failure to remember that each age of the world has its peculiar

points of strength as well as of weakness.

During one period, that self-denying patriotism and zeal for the common good will be developing

which is necessary for the formation of society.

During another, the study of the principles of morality and religion will be in the

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