is capable of some little Explanation from what I have quoted out of Mr.

Lock

; for if our Notion of Time is produced by our reflecting on the Succession of Ideas in our Mind, and this Succession may be infinitely accelerated or retarded, it will follow, that different Beings may have different Notions of the same Parts of Duration, according as their Ideas, which we suppose are equally distinct in each of them, follow one another in a greater or less Degree of Rapidity.

There is a famous Passage in the

Alcoran

, which looks as if

Mahomet

had been possessed of the Notion we are now speaking of.

[It]

is there said