Writing, Acceleration, Evolution

Kant follows the tradition of representing Time as a line, i. e. in which the constituent moments are successive.  However, as he examines the process of the drawing of a line, he misses that the pattern is more than mere Succession.  For, rather, in the drawing of a line, the earlier moments are preserved in the later moments, as are the earlier rings of a tree in the later ones.  Hence, Kant ironically illustrates that Time is actually Cumulative, and not merely Successive.  Likewise, since Writing preserves a moment, the Temporal form of Writing is Accumulation, as is that of written History.  In Physics, the 't-squared' in the denominator of the formula of Acceleration signifies Accumulation, i. e. the preservation of earlier Velocity in the subsequent increase of it.  Finally, Evolution is similarly cumulative--the increase in the complexity that constitutes the origination of a new species preserves the less complex ones that are its antecedents.