For man does not wait for science to have his life explained
to him, and when the theorist approaches social reality he finds the field
pre-empted by what may be called the self-interpretation of society. Human society is not merely a fact, or an
event, in the external world to be studied by an observer like a natural
phenomenon. Although it has externality
as one of its important components, it is as a whole a little world, a cosmion,
illuminated with meaning from within by the human beings who continuously
create and bear it as the mode and condition of their self-realization.
Voegelin, Representation and Existence
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