The state is older than the science of the state, and theory is younger than the experience that is organized and traced back to rules and principles by the former. A person finds themselves in the state before they even think about wanting to enter it, just as they grow from a child to a youth and then mature into a man, without being aware of the transitions between different stages of life. Only after having gone through various relationships and conditions does one reflect on them, explore their causes, consider and compare, and notice where and how things could have been different, thus better or worse. The first guide for humans is nature, which exerts almost unlimited control over them until they, educated in her school, learn to master her. The first states are natural states, as dictated by the needs of time and place.