Civilisation Or Civilisations: An Essay on the Spenglerian Philosophy of HistoryBoni & Liveright, 1926 - 245 páginas |
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Civilisation Or Civilisations: An Essay on the Spenglerian Philosophy of History E. H. Goddard,P. A. Gibbons Vista de fragmentos - 1926 |
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Página 161 - ... the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit; and to point the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken.
Página 64 - The mutual attacks of State on State; the mutual usurpations of family on family; the mutual robberies of man on man; the want of kindness on the part of the sovereign and of loyalty on the part of the minister; the want of tenderness and filial duty between father and son: — these, and such as these, are the things injurious to the empire.
Página 65 - ... brothers would be harmonious and easily reconciled. Men in general loving one another, the strong would not make prey of the weak ; the many would not plunder the few, the rich would not insult the poor, the noble would not be insolent to the mean; and the deceitful would not impose upon the simple.
Página 64 - It would lead to the regarding another's kingdom as one's own: another's family as one's own: another's person as one's own. That being the case, the princes, loving one another, would have no battle-fields; the chiefs of families, loving one another, would attempt no usurpations; men, loving one another, would commit no robberies; rulers and ministers, loving one another, would be gracious and loyal; fathers and sons, loving one another, would be kind and filial; brothers, loving one another, would...
Página 151 - He showed, also — evidently as the result of anatomical investigation — that the retina is the seat of vision, and that impressions made by light upon it are conveyed along the optic nerve to the brain. The Arabians had invented, or had learnt the use of, many scientific instruments unknown to the Europeans. And I need scarcely point out the superiority of the Arabian system of numerals over the Roman.
Página 84 - Greek's over-occupation with the ibstract as against the concrete. In the words of Oswald Spengler: The Greek did not stay his course for such base purposes as the careful investigation and collation of facts. He saw them and rushed to create by pure insight or philosophy a theory of the universe. The Greek throughout his culture, preferred abstract thought to the study of concrete facts. Almost careless of external facts the Greek was free to devote himself to the world of thought.
Página 75 - He who is the Creator of all is great; he creates and supports all, he is above all and sees all. He is beyond the seat of the seven Rishis. So the wise men say, and the wise men obtain fulfilment of all their desires.
Página 151 - Wisdom, he sets forth the connection between the weight^ of the atmosphere and its increasing density. He shows that a body will weigh differently in a rare and a dense atmosphere ; he considers the force with which plunged bodies rise through heavier media.
Página 114 - Europe from 1600-1750, all mark an advance which is quite clearly defined as the height. Fifty years more, and in each case the best is over, and in place of Phidias Scopas, of Bach Beethoven ; just as we have Alexander in place of Pericles, Louis XVIII. in place of Louis XIV., and in place of the greatness of Puritan thought and philosophical originality, the dulness of rationalism and academic hair-splitting. We can discuss Beethoven or Praxiteles much better than Phidias and Bach, less well than...
Página 122 - Once we have grasped how art develops and what is the fundamental symbol of Europe, we can work out the whole details for ourselves ; there are necessarily some apparent exceptions and contradictions, but further examination will find that they are either unimportant or the result of a momentary distortion.