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The long obscurity of prehistory, the foundation of all that follows, is scarcely broken by such dim light as we can cast upon it. The remains of the historical period proper the period of which we possess written evidence are fortuitous and full of gaps;. Between a prehistory hundreds of times as long and an immeasurable future lie the five thousand years of history visible to us, a minute fraction of the unpredictable duration of man's life on earth.
This history is open towards prehistory as well as towards the future. It cannot be limited in either direction, cannot be conceived of as a rounded form, a self-contained and completedstructure.
We and the present in which we live are situated in the midst ofbecomes null and void if it loses the narrow horizon of the day and degenerates into a mere present. The aim of this book is to assist in heightening our awareness of the present. The present reaches fulfilment through the historical ground which we bring to effective activity within ourselves.
The first part of this book deals with world history up to the present. On the other hand, the present reaches fulfilment through the future latent within it, whose tendencies we make into our own, either by rejecting or accepting them. The second part of this book is devoted to the present and the future.
Guided by history to pass beyond all history into the Comprehensive that is the ultimate goal which, though thought can never reach it, it can nevertheless approach. In the third part of this book the meaning of history is discussed. This present of oursitself within. What is the nature of the parallelism asserted? What caused the facts of the Axial Period? And God may help. Spengler claims that he the first to do so in his opinion formulates an historical prognosis methodologically with the certitude of an astronomer.
He predicts the decline of the West. Many people found in his book the corroboration of a state of mind which they brought with them to the reading of it. Two insights are, in principle, to be set in opposition to the dictatorial certitude of his brilliant conception of the play of relationships, which fluctuatesdependent upon3.
In the process, the imperious idea of the 'necessity' of events becomes confused. Morphological form-sequences are construed causally, the evidence of the senses as a real necessity of events. Spengler is methodologically untenable where he gives more than a characterisation of phenomena. If real problems very often lie hidden in his analogies, they come to light only when it becomes possibledefinition thatit.
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