Experience is subconscious. Comprehension is conscious. Society converts experience into conscious comprehension by a two-stage process. First, the subconscious experience of the society becomes conscious comprehension in the Individual. Second, the subconscious experience of the society becomes the conscious comprehension of the entire society. The individual first gives conscious expression to what the society has learned subconsciously from its experience. Later the collective comes to consciously realize what the individual has realized.