Time. One of the facets of human consciousness is the idea of time. People feel the passage of time in their personal experience, physically and, at the same time, mentally, and observe it in the environment, both social and natural (animate and inanimate). Time, as experience shows, is a unidirectional movement, the pace of which is slow enough to distinguish it. (Only material fluids actually flow, but as in general in physical experience, time can only be described in the language of physical phenomena.) People feel and think in the course of time. They also act in it, mastering it either sufficiently or insufficiently.

 

(Encyclopedia Britannica (A. J. T.) The New..., 1975, v. 18).

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