I. In this essay I put forward the thesis that Husserl's concept of history underwent a certain development, gradually making its way from rather inconspicuous beginnings according to the progressive differentiation of his method. To put it more precisely, I hope to show that Husserl's so-called "turn" to history, as found explicitly in the Crisis, must be understood as an intrinsic consequence of the procedure Husserl inaugurated when he founded transcendental phenomenology.