For the latter is capable of infinite potentialities. Thus, every form a nation takes is transitory. The possibility that one formative tendency should be supplemented by its contrary because of consciousness of its inadequacy is always at hand. Thus, here, the concept of development is given a much more comprehensive but also more indeterminate meaning. The regular patterns that anthropology associates with passion, illusion, reason, idea, or self control vanish completely here.
Every generation forgets the experiences of the one before.
The common experiences of a nation, common purposes, and memories are real. They are the source of the communally determined purposes of individuals. It is a commonplace that nly individuals can experience the satisfaction of realized goals, the consciousness of common experience and of being sustained and filled by common memories. But, it does not follow from this that what takes place only in individuals exists nly for their satisfaction. It is not possible to penetrate behind this reality that consists of the consciousness of value, meaning, purpose and good, by means of problematical, psychological, reasoning.