ABSTRACT
The calendar is evidently a class with natural succession. Time, when this word appears in the diagrams of economists, is a label affixed to an axis, that is, to the visual presentation of a space with succession. The assimilation of time to the space of the senses, 'space' in the conversational meaning of the word, seems to proceed by a false analogy. The temptation to assimilate time with a physical space may no doubt arise in part from the description of physical movement by means of differential equations. The spatial intuition of time, time as room for something, is strongly suggested and supported by the insistent, inescapable natural repetitive frame of life. But sequence in time comes into the matter of description of configurations or stereotypes, and these are the building-blocks of explanation, of scientific prediction, and of technology. The shapes of the building-blocks of human affairs constrain or bound, without determining, the large-scale constructions which can exist.
