Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1669

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Adrian C. Moulyn, 160 Post Road, Darien, Connecticut, together with pencil notes perhaps intended to be added.

February 25, 1959

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Moulyn:

 

     For several days I have been delightedly absorbed in your Structure, Function and Purpose: From the Standpoint of Time.

I was hopefully intrigued by the last three words with which it was titled and have been much rewarded in my reading of the text.

 

     For time, while the third and ultimate aspect of the cosmic actuality, has been least and last looked upon in the development of modern objective science. Masses, structures, particles have been almost the sole objects of objective examination. Motion — as velocity — has been given a secondary and abstract consideration. But time, for the most part and until lately, has been left aside or relegated to the realms of philosophy and metaphysics.

/In my Citadel, Market & Altar/ time is brought forward as the actualizer that invests mere abstract energy with the reality of objective, concrete action.

/Pencil note attached; to have been inserted in letter?:/

It has been discovered that motion is always discontinuous, and thus rhythmic, in some kind of units and thus involves not only the mass, particle (or force) that moves but also a period or succession of periods of time and what is vaguely conceived as “space-time” is simply motion (of whatever moves) involving time — velocity. Any integration (however proportioned) of mass, motion and time is an event or act

 — a quantity of action — and this alone can be objectively experienced. Anything less than the full three-fold integration cannot be experienced, can only be subjectively conceived. Space-time is simply motion in relation to time, abstracted from full-bodied action or events.