Today, popular thinking and the systems of calculation in daily life offer very little friction to the passage of its ideas.
In fact, if you're aware that your boss prefers to read things first and then discuss, make sure you have a few decently presented proposals on paper to ease the passage of your ideas.
I came away with some very clear ideas that I thought might fade into the background but, with the passage of time, those ideas have, if anything, intensified.
It is widely believed in Washington that there is no chance the gun lobby and the new Republican majority in the House would ever permit passage of the modest ideas for tightening America's absurdly lax gun laws that have surfaced since the massacre in Tucson.
We read into this passage the idea of marriage, mainly due to the translations we are reading.
Given that God is immutable, and hence that the divine power is not affected by the passage of time, and divine ideas, within Wyclif's system, are as necessary as the divine essence itself, the logical consequence is that, despite Wyclif's claims of the contrary, the whole history of the world is determined from eternity.
Then there is one of Bush's proudest boasts about his first year as governor, the 1995 passage of tort reform legislation, an idea Gore does not support.
I see now that he had hit upon the ideal idea: The passage of time, and plenty of it, is the only marital panacea… Finally, Joan Acocella gave us the most comprehensive take on hangovers and hangover cures in an Annals of Drinking which was published in 2008.
In Bruckner, of course, theological considerations come into play, and behind the passage lurk ideas of the relationship between time and eternity.
There is a tendency to focus on the technologies when observing the passage of time rather that the ideas the technologies allow.
"I had an idea of the passage of time and light during one day, particularly the transition beginning at predawn," Mr. Gober said.
