The decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

[80]. The date of Napoleon’s defeat, and the liberation of Germany, on the field of Leipzig.—Tr.

[81]. See Vol. II, pp. 25 et seq., 327 et seq.

[82].

“All we see before us passing

Sign and symbol is alone.”

From the final stanza of Faust II (Anster’s translation).—Tr.

[83]. This phrase, derived by analogy from the centre of gravity of mechanics, is offered as a translation of “mithin in einim Zeitpunkte ger nicht zusammengefasst werden können.”—Tr.

[84]. Cf. Vol. II, p. 33 et seq.

[85]. Not the dissecting morphology of the Darwinian’s pragmatic zoology with its hunt for causal connexions, but the seeing and overseeing morphology of Goethe.

[86]. See Vol. II, pp. 41 et seq.