Word: religionless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...used in widely different ways, and its very vagueness tends greatly to diminish the value of their conclusions. The writers of Vekhi defined the intelligentsia not in terms of the level or nature of their education but according to their ideology. They were a sort of new, religionless, humanist order...