One is acquainted with it, discusses it, encourages it, combats it, retains it, and forgets it, but one always does so primarily with regard to what is getting done and what is 'going to come of it' [was . . . "herausspringt"] . We compute the progress which the individual Dasein has made—his stoppages, readjustments, and 'output'; and we do so proximally in terms of that with which he is concerned—its course, its status, its changes, its availability. No matter how trivial it may be to allude to the way in which Dasein is understood in everyday common sense, ontologically this understanding is by no means transparent. But in that case, why should not Dasein's 'connectedness' be defined in terms of what it is concerned with, and what it 'Experiences'? Do not equipment and work and every thing which Dasein dwells alongside, belong to 'history' too? If not, is the historizing of history just the isolated running-off of 'streams of Experience' in individual subjects?
Indeed history is neither the connectedness of motions in the alterations of Objects, nor a free-floating sequence of Experiences which 'subjects' have had. Does the historizing of history then pertain to the way subject and Object are 'linked together'? Even if one assigns [zuweist] historizing to the subject-Object relation, we then have to ask what kind of Being belongs to this linkage as such, if this is what basically 'historizes'. The thesis of Dasein's historicality does not say that the worldless subject is historical, but that what is historical is the entity that exists as Being-in-the-world. The historizing of history is the historizing of Being-in-the-world. Dasein's historicality is essentially the historicality of the world, which, on the basis of ecstatico-horizontal temporality, belongs to the temporalizing of that temporality. In so far as Dasein exists factically, it already encounters that which has been discovered within-the-world. With the existence of historical Being-in-the-world, what is ready-to-hand and what is present-at-hand have already, in every case, been incorporated into the history of the world. Equipment and work-for instance, books-have their 'fates'; buildings and institutions have their history. And even Nature is historical. It is not historical, to be sure, in so far as we speak of 'natural history';ix but Nature is historical as a countryside, as an area that has been colonized [389] or exploited, as a battlefield, or as the site of a cult. These entities within-the-world are historical as such, and their history does not signify something 'external' which merely accompanies the 'inner' history of the 'soul'. We call such entities "the world-historical". Here we must notice that the expression 'world-history' which we have chosen and which is here understood ontologically, has a double signification. The expression signifies, for one thing, the historizing of the world in its essential existent unity with Dasein. At the same time, we have here in view the 'historizing'