The historical man believes that ever more light is shed on the meaning of existence in the course of its process, and they look back to consider that more vehemently. They do not know how unhistorically they think and act despite all their history, and how even their concern with thistoriography does not serve pure knowledge but life.
The superhistorical man does not see salvation in the process, for whom, rather, the world is complete and achieves its end at every single moment. What could ten years teach that the past ten years were incapable of teaching!
Superhistorical men have never agreed whether the significance of the teaching is happiness or resignation, virtue or penance; but opposed to all historical ways of viewing the past, they are quite unanimous in accepting the following proposition: the past and the present is one and the same, that is, typically alike in all manifold variety and, as omnipresence of imperishable types, a static structure of unchanged value and eternally the same meaning.
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