En cent ans, nous avons connu plus de changements qu'en dix mille ans. Quelle accélération ! Tout va si vite: le présent n'est qu'un morceau d'avenir qui se mue aussitôt en passé.

Acceleration (n.)

The rate of change of a state through time

The strata are extremely mobile. […] Rhythms pertain to these interstratic movements, which are also acts of stratification. Stratification is like the creation of the world from chaos, a continual, renewed creation.

We must here accept a paradox, which is in fact admitted by everyone with the greatest of ease, and even consumed as a proof of medernity. This paradox is that an excess of speed turns into repose.