Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don’t interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine.
“By God and all the saints,” he said. “Time travel.”

Harold snorted impatiently. “My dear Peter, ‘time’ is a meaningless word taken by itself, just as ‘space’ is.”

“But barring that, time travel.”

“If you like, yes.”

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  1. “Anachron” by Damon Knight, in If, January 1954.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Damon Knight