652. From noon to sunset – which are respectively the 24-hour cycle's "summer solstice" and "autumnal equinox" – we have the afternoon.This therefore constitutes this cycle's "summer".The sun has now passed its zenith in the sky.The day is culminating.And here life corresponds to the year cycle's display of summer.To a great extent human beings hold their social functions in the afternoon.Their gatherings, meetings, parties and entertainments, in short, their entire mental manifestation blossoms at its fullest during the course of the afternoon. At certain times of the year they use the evenings to assist in expressing the "summer" of their 24-hour cycle, and this is due only to the fact that, as we shall see later, a certain tilt of the Earth's axis in relation to its orbit round the sun means that the "seasons" of the 24-hour cycle, that is to say its days and nights, are lengthened and shortened.
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