28. The notion of an hour, day, or year, being only the idea I have of the length of certain periodical regular motions, neither of which motions do ever all at once exist, but only in the ideas I have of them in my memory derived from my senses or reflection; I can with the same ease, and for the same reason, apply it in my thoughts to duration antecedent to all manner of motion, as well as to anything that is but a minute or a day antecedent to the motion that at this very moment the sun is in. All things past are equally and perfectly at rest;
28. Ordu, egun edo urte baten nozioa aldizkako zenbait higiduraren luzerari buruz daukadan nozioa besterik ez denez gero, higidurok inoiz ez direlarik guztiak batera existitzen, neure sentimenetatik edo hausnarketatik eratorrita oroimenean berauei buruz ditudan ideietan izan ezik, erraztasun beraz eta arrazoi beragatik aplika diezaieket neure pentsamenduetan higidura ororen aurreko iraupenari zein une honetan bertan eguzkiak daukan higidura baino minutu bat edo egun bat lehenago gertaturiko edozeri.