Hermeneutics is not a metaphysical theory in this sense and so can only be "proved" by being presented as the response to a history of being, a history of the fabling of the world, of the weakening of structures, that is as the occurrence of nihilism.

The new realists took an unblinking look at the human effects of welfare economics and the emergent morality of a nation slowly quitting austerity for affluence; the old romantics looked rather to recover a world of fine fabling like Spenser's Faerie Queene or the Victorian children's stories of George MacDonald.