{"id":"01KG8AN1SB1EBW0HARB3ECTR61","cid":"bafkreiauyylezvkqa4svicvdp2fcjvmie5lu5hit62ccx2un4f67pt5s6q","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9462,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:52.921Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 7","source_file":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","start_line":9401,"text":"chronometer; that is, having ascertained its degree of organic\r\ninaccuracy, however small, then in all subsequent chronometrical\r\ncalculations, that ascertained loss or gain can be readily added or\r\ndeducted, as the case may be. Then again, on these long voyages, the\r\nchronometer may be corrected by comparing it with the chronometer of\r\nsome other ship at sea, more recently from home.\r\n\r\n\"Now in an artificial world like ours, the soul of man is further\r\nremoved from its God and the Heavenly Truth, than the chronometer\r\ncarried to China, is from Greenwich. And, as that chronometer, if at all\r\naccurate, will pronounce it to be 12 o'clock high-noon, when the China\r\nlocal watches say, perhaps, it is 12 o'clock midnight; so the\r\nchronometric soul, if in this world true to its great Greenwich in the\r\nother, will always, in its so-called intuitions of right and wrong, be\r\ncontradicting the mere local standards and watch-maker's brains of this\r\nearth.\r\n\r\n\"Bacon's brains were mere watch-maker's brains; but Christ was a\r\nchronometer; and the most exquisitely adjusted and exact one, and the\r\nleast affected by all terrestrial jarrings, of any that have ever come\r\nto us. And the reason why his teachings seemed folly to the Jews, was\r\nbecause he carried that Heaven's time in Jerusalem, while the Jews\r\ncarried Jerusalem time there. Did he not expressly say--My wisdom (time)\r\nis not of this world? But whatever is really peculiar in the wisdom of\r\nChrist seems precisely the same folly to-day as it did 1850 years ago.\r\nBecause, in all that interval his bequeathed chronometer has still\r\npreserved its original Heaven's time, and the general Jerusalem of this\r\nworld has likewise carefully preserved its own.\r\n\r\n\"But though the chronometer carried from Greenwich to China, should\r\ntruly exhibit in China what the time may be at Greenwich at any moment;\r\nyet, though thereby it must necessarily contradict China time, it does\r\nby no means thence follow, that with respect to China, the China watches\r\nare at all out of the way. Precisely the reverse. For the fact of that\r\nvariance is a presumption that, with respect to China, the Chinese\r\nwatches must be all right; and consequently as the China watches are\r\nright as to China, so the Greenwich chronometers must be wrong as to\r\nChina. Besides, of what use to the Chinaman would a Greenwich\r\nchronometer, keeping Greenwich time, be? Were he thereby to regulate his\r\ndaily actions, he would be guilty of all manner of absurdities:--going\r\nto bed at noon, say, when his neighbors would be sitting down to dinner.\r\nAnd thus, though the earthly wisdom of man be heavenly folly to God; so\r\nalso, conversely, is the heavenly wisdom of God an earthly folly to man.\r\nLiterally speaking, this is so. Nor does the God at the heavenly\r\nGreenwich expect common men to keep Greenwich wisdom in this remote\r\nChinese world of ours; because such a thing were unprofitable for them\r\nhere, and, indeed, a falsification of Himself, inasmuch as in that case,\r\nChina time would be identical with Greenwich time, which would make\r\nGreenwich time wrong.\r\n\r\n\"But why then does God now and then send a heavenly chronometer (as a\r\nmeteoric stone) into the world, uselessly as it would seem, to give the\r\nlie to all the world's time-keepers? Because he is unwilling to leave\r\nman without some occasional testimony to this:--that though man's\r\nChinese notions of things may answer well enough here, they are by no\r\nmeans universally applicable, and that the central Greenwich in which He\r\ndwells goes by a somewhat different method from this world. And yet it\r\nfollows not from this, that God's truth is one thing and man's truth\r\nanother; but--as above hinted, and as will be further elucidated in\r\nsubsequent lectures--by their very contradictions they are made to\r\ncorrespond.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 7"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJTDYVK8J8YE00DK13XV8","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JSYKSGCE149MH9HF6A","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AN1SBNXE9W5PWJ5YPDN6K","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AN1S49RRHJQH7R3BR4HBC","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:57.131Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:49:24.435Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}