Each individual’s youth faithfully repeats that of his forebears, introducing him to a role that lives on unchanged: it is a “pre-scribed” youth, which, to quote Mannheim again, knows no “entelechy.

每一个个体的青年时期忠实地重复着祖先的足，一个一不变的角色：这是模仿前辈的年轻，再次引用曼海姆的话，叫做没有“实体”的年轻。