Even more so, the meaning that we ascribe to the data of our own individual histories and to the events of social history depends on anticipation of the totality which is developing in history, i.e., on its future, and these anticipations constantly change with further experience because as we move ahead the horizon of experience broadens. Thus as time advances it brings to light what is constant and true in the world of our beginnings, and what is unreliable—firm and lasting though it might seem