The psychological view on the world of Isaac Newton included as its own part a physical view on the world. Time exists by itself and doesn't owe whatever in the world its existence. All natural bodies and all physical phenomena submit to its course, but all these bodies and phenomena do not influence somehow on the course of time. The course of time is the same everywhere in the world. It is the same and equally uniform in the past, present and future.
Time spreads unlimitedly forward from the present to the future.
Spaces of time are measured off, summed up and subtracted as segments in a straight Evklid's line. Such is absolute time of classical mechanics. The object of study in physics is movement. Being pressed by facts the creators of relativity theory had to overthrow the concepts of space and time from a priori Olymp. Time lost its absoluteness and turned into a metric function.