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Is World Peace Possible?
473 words A cabled reply to an American poll First published in Cosmopolitan, January, 1936 The question whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world...
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The Colored World-Revolution, Part 1
The French Revolution comes to Haiti 3,667 words From The Hour of Decision (1933) The Western Civilization of this century is threatened, not by one, but by two world revolutions of major dimensions....
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The Colored World Revolution, Part 2
3,597 words From The Hour of Decision (1933) Part 2 of 2. Click here for Part 1. This general Colored Revolution over the whole earth marches under the disguise of very varied tendencies: national,...
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Pessimism?
Oswald Spengler, 1880–1936 6,158 words My book (The Decline of the West, Vol. I.) has met with widespread misunderstandings. In a sense, that is almost an inevitable concomitant of any novel approach...
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Nietzsche & His Century
5,404 words An address delivered on October 15, 1924, Nietzsche’s eightieth birthday, at the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar Looking back at the nineteenth century and letting its great men pass before the...
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Prussians & Englishmen
4,018 words Editor’s Note: The following is a selection from chapter 3, “Prussians and Englishmen,” of Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism, a short book or long essay of about 36,000 words...
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Prussians & Englishmen, Part 2
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5,639 words Part One, Part Two 17. This brings us to the political aspects of the English-Prussian antithesis. Politics is the highest and most powerful dimension of all historical existence. World...
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