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Man, "the negative being who is only to the extent that he suppresses Being,"
is identical to time. Man's appropriation of his own nature is at the same time
his grasp of the unfolding of the universe. "History is itself a real part of
natural history, of the transformation of nature into man" (Marx). Inversely,
this "natural history" has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like
the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at
the periphery of the universe. History has always existed, but not always in a
historical form. The temporalization of man as effected through the mediation
of a society is equivalent to a humanization of time. The unconscious movement
of time manifests itself and becomes true within historical consciousness.