The decline of the West

by Oswald Spengler

The reference to Saint John and world-history as a note on p. [18] seems incorrect. Footnote [13] on that page refers to the Apostle Paul. The reference is left unlinked.

On p. [vi] of the Index, a cross-referenced ‘Motherland’ topic is missing.

Minor punctuation lapses in the Index have been corrected without further notice.

Other errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

[xvii.18]	Geometry and arith[e]metic	Removed.
[8.4]	lead to a naturalistic[,] Chronology	Removed.
[8.27]	there is certain[t]ly no world-history	Removed.
[12.29]	unparallel[l]ed in art-history	Removed.
[25.19]	all these arbit[r]ary> and narrow schemes	Inserted.
[26.39]	occurring f[u/o]r us	Replaced.
[37.20]	and theor[i/e]tically	Replaced.
[62.42]	de oudaineté et de certitude absolue	Added.
[82.30]	The Greek m[e/a]thematicians	Replaced.
[126.35]	approached these question	Added.
[128.18]	a glad materialization of the spritual.	Inserted.
[129.39]	κακῶς [ἐί/εἴ]ληφα τ[ὀυ/οὐ]μὸνσῶμα σ[υ/ὺ]ν τέχνῃ κακῇ.	Replaced.
[129.41]	μαντεῖα ... [ἅ/ἃ] τοῦδ’	Replaced.
[133.43]	(παρὰ τοσ[όu/oῦ]τον μ[ε/ὲ]ν [ἥ/ἡ] Μυτιλήνη ἦλθε κινδύνου)	Replaced.
[134.36]	“Handbook of Early Christian Antiquities)”[.]	Added.
[134.43]	“Handbook of May on Antiquities.[”]	Added.
[150.41]	was th[o]roughly English in spirit	Inserted.
[191.22]	(mitschwingen i[n/m] Lebenstakte)	Replaced.
[200.16]	Hagia [S ]Sophia in Constantinople	Removed.
[212.30]	Here there was no brillant instant	Inserted.
[213.42]	Ency. Brit., XI Ed.[)]	Added.
[227.28]	to the harp[is/si]chord	Transposed.
[269.24]	absorbed philos[o]pher	Inserted.
[269.38]	impor[t]ant and significant	Inserted.
[270.34]	comp[a]re his unbridled dynamism	Inserted.
[271.43]	Oldach, Wasmann[,] Rayski and many another	Inserted.
[277.18]	he shattere[e]d the canon	Removed.
[288.39]	it is so th[o]roughly irreligious	Inserted.
[290.31]	something of Rembrandt’s p[ro/or]traiture	Transposed.
[299.6]	Every professed philos[o]pher	Inserted.
[302.27]	the essen[s/c]e of the soul	Replaced.
[307.16]	of our Nature-picture[.]	Added.
[307.40]	Ges[s/c]h. d. neueren Philosophie	Replaced.
[313.42]	οὔκουν ἂν[ ]εκφύγοι γε τὴν πεπρωμένην	Inserted.
[318.6]	ἀνθρώπ[ῶ/ω]ν ἀλλὰ πρ[α/ά]ξεων καὶ βίου.	Replaced.
[330.25]	that would not i[n/m]pugn the primacy	Replaced.
[333.43]	quite independently of gunpow[d]er	Inserted.
[355.8]	oppressive actualiti[t]es	Removed.
[360.18]	spritual prostitution	Inserted.
[363.31]	what should be dest[r]oyed	Inserted.
[373.30]	der politischen [O/Ö]konomie	Replaced.
[400.36]	Mo[v/r]eover, it is only	Replaced.
[410.2]	in its attitude to[r]wards toleration	Removed.
[a.iii.20]	See Bart[h]olommeo	Removed.
[a.v.41]	Calculus, and Classical astro[mon/nom]y	Transposed.
[a.vi.17]	ancest[o]ral worship	Removed.
[a.xii.33]	Western math[e]matic and term	Inserted.
[a.xiii.47]	wi[ds/sd]om and intellect	Transposed.
[a.xxv.45]	intellect and wi[ds/sd]om	Transposed.
[a.xxviii.38]	Tartini, G[ui/iu]seppe	Transposed.
[a.xxix.42]	[‘/“]space of time”	Replaced.
[a.xxxi.11]	Wey[ ]den, Rogier van der.	Removed.
[t3.20]	disolution of	Inserted.