Both Uses of
pendulum
in
Man And Superman
- An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.†
Chpt 3 *
- Granted that the great Life Force has hit on the device of the clockmaker's pendulum, and uses the earth for its bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but the history of the last oscillation repeated; nay more, that in the unthinkable infinitude of time the sun throws off the earth and catches it again a thousand times as a circus rider throws up a ball, and that the total of all our epochs is but the moment between the toss and the catch,…†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(pendulum) a weight hanging from a fixed location so that the weight swings freely back and forth under the influence of gravity -- such as is seen in some mechanical clocks
or:
a change that is roughly proportional and in the opposite direction of a prior change -- such as a change in opinion