What century is it today in Peking or Jerusalem or Moscow? Yet the very speed of communication between these entities so discontinuous in space, time, and experience makes for a simultaneity in which lineal history is abolished by becoming present. Coleridge, a myriad-minded man living in a most tumultuous age, might not have enjoyed our time more than his own, but he was forced to invent a great deal of conceptual equipment which is indispensable to an intellect of today.