IN this book is attempted for the first time the venture of predetermining history, of following the still untravelled stages in the destiny of a Culture, and specifically of the only Culture of our time and on our planet which is actually in the phase of fulfilment - the West-European-American.
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First Sentence
"REGARD the flowers at eventide as, one after the other, they close in the setting sun."
Table of Contents
Chapter I.
Introduction
Page 1
Chapter II.
The Meaning of Numbers
Page 51
Chapter III.
The Problem of World-History(1) Physiognomic and Systematic
Page 91
Chapter IV.
The Problem of World-History (2) The Destiny-Idea and The Causality-Principle
Page 115
Chapter V.
Makrokosmos (1) The Symbolism of the World-Pictyre and the Problem of Space
Page 161
Chapter VI.
Makrokosmos (2) Apollinian, Faustian and Magian Soul
Page 181
Chapter VII.
Music and Plastic (1) The Arts of Form
Page 217
Chapter VIII.
Music and Plastic (2) Act and Portrait
Page 257
Chapter IX.
Soul Image and Life-Feeling (1) On the Form of the Soul
Page 297
Chapter X.
Soul-Image and Life-Feeling (2) Buddhism, Stoicism, and Socialism
Page 339
Chapter XI.
Faustian and Apollinian Nature-Knowledge
Page 375
Index.
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Page 428
Tables.
Illustrating the Comparative Morphology of History
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