The Decline of the West |
Contents
ORIGIN AND Landscape B THE GROUP OF THE HIGHER Cul | 21 |
is History? p 8 Classical and Indian mankind ahistorical p 9 The Egyptian mummy | 23 |
The only historical method is Goethes p 25 Ourselves and the Romans p 26 Nietzsche | 36 |
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