The whole background against which the dynamism: small community?region-nation is played, in a kind of nationalized ?chain of being? (Lovejoy, 1964) connecting long series of social units, consists in the existence of  a kind of meta-organism, the nation (neamul), this being seen as able to sustain, undamaged, the tension abstract?concrete, to absorb and heal the breaches between tradition and modernity, past and present; to be, on one side, the object of a new synthetic-analytic science and, on the other side, its grounding and its warranty.

?There is [?] in this direction, only one large social science, that of the Nation (neamului), with its unity of life, ethnically, historically and functionally conditioned. Its parts are constituted on the analytic moments brought by the study of the morphological groups forming the nation. This science can give, relying on data from the present, an abstract image of the total function of social life, of the interconditioning of internal processes etc., but it can also try, relying on data from the past, to try, on the same organic foundation, to reconstruct the historical forms of life of our Nation, that are continuing, on different routes, until the present time, constituting the colorful image of his concrete life (Ionică, 1996: 20).

The nation is understood as having a strong natural-organic setting and as existing behind scientific discourses. Thus, the primordial national community is implicitly constructed as a substrate that sustains and nurtures the scientific discourses; in this process they become tainted with meanings different from the explicit arguments. These un - or under ? formulated stances can be seen and deciphered in the context of arguments, or in the context of unexpected agreements between different scientific positions, behind which one may guess this diffuse, common ideology, of the organic, primordial character of the nation.