That is to say, history is legitimized by a psychological identification with our ancestors through the encounter of their artifacts and not by the persuasion of causal ideals alone. History gives shape to the human experience. It lets us know who we are and how we got here. Significant artifacts acquire transcendent value as symbols of the historical myth that personifies the genealogy of consciousness. The projection of ontological value by the participant in the encounter with the artifact denotes a class of experiential knowledge that falls outside the reductive assessment of history.
History is substantiated by transcendent experience as well as by logical explanation.
It provides a transcendent means for stabilizing and maintaining autonomous self-image. The belief in the myth of causal history, whatever its latest revision, is essential to the integrity of diachronic consciousness.