They also advanced a cyclical view of time, which is reminiscent of the Ismā'īlī.

Besides the cyclical view and the progressive, there was the important tradition concerning a Golden Age in the remote past.

You can read the entire Book of Judges as the working out of a cyclical view of history.

This entire opening sequence is repeated and accelerated at the close, implying a cyclical view of human nature.

The ancient Mayans and Aztecs also took a cyclical view of time.

And there are other facts that seem to lend support to your cyclical view of history.

In Mr. Park's cyclical view of history, the wheel never stops turning.

Maybe they believed in a cyclical view of the universe.

If things never improve in her cyclical view of events, life does continue, and stoicism tempers what would otherwise be a monstrous pessimism.

There is no "first" in a cyclical view of time.