The fact that this [transcendental] dimension [of consciousness] remained hidden through the ages, the fact that, even after it made itself felt, it never aroused a habitual and consistent theoretical interest, can (and will) be explained by displaying a peculiar antagonism between the entry into this dimension and the preoccupations involved in all the interests which make up the naturally normal human world-life. … This schema for a possible clarification of the problem of objective science reminds us of Helmholtz’ well-known image of the plane-beings, who have no idea of the dimension of depth, in which their plane-world is a mere projection. Everything of which men—the scientists and all the others—can become conscious in their natural world-life (experiencing, knowing, practically planning, acting) as a field of external objects—as ends, means, processes of action, and final results related to these objects—and on the other hand, also, in self-reflection, as the spiritual life which functions thereby—all this remains on the “plane,” which is, though unnoticed, nevertheless only a plane within an infinitely richer [transcendental] dimension of depth. … Of course the power of historical prejudices also plays a constant role here, especially of those which, coming from the origin of the modem positive sciences, dominate us all. It is of the very essence of such prejudices, drilled into the souls even of children, that they are concealed in their immediate effects. The abstract general will to be without prejudice changes nothing about them.

— Husserl

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