Our ignorance is so abysmal that our judgments of likeliness and unlikeliness of future events hardly count.
The real point is that the exact recurrence of a state of nature seems merely unlikely, while the recurrence of an instant of time violates our whole concept of time-order.

The instants of time which have passed, are passed, and can never be again.
Any alternative theory of time must reckon with these two considerations which are buttresses of the absolute theory.

But I will not now continue their discussion.
The absolute theory of space is analogous to the corresponding theory of time, but the reasons for its maintenance are weaker.

Space, on this theory, is a system of extensionless points which are the relata in space-ordering relations which can technically be combined into one relation.

This relation does not arrange the points in one linear series analogously to the simple method of the time-ordering relation for instants.