The left and right, evolutionists, physicists, and most revolutionaries, all accept—at least on a historical scale—the nineteenth-century view of a unilinear and uniform "flow" of time.

管是左派还是右派，或是进化论者、物理主义者，以及大部分革命者，都赞同十九世纪关于时间是一个单线和速的“流”的观念——至少在历史的尺度上。