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...TECHNICS - Oswald Spengler - Knopf...
After the heavy barrage laid down by The Decline of the West, Philosopher Spengler, cannonader of despair, now uses a single big gun to finish off what scattered hopes remain. His Big Bertha may scare swivel-chair warriors at H. Q., but it goes way over the heads of the boys doing the fighting up in front...
Powder to launch his projectile Spengler derives from the dogma "Man is a beast of prey." But he is essentially not only a carnivore, he is also an inventive carnivore. With every fresh invention Man advances further outside the bounds of Nature. To maintain his unnatural position he soon finds it necessary to band together into societies; within these societies men divide into the leaders and the led. Invention, technics become more and more complex: "The pace of discovery grows fantastic, and withal . . . human labor is not saved thereby." Knowledge to design and manage the machines becomes the leaders...
...Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips to Palestine, India, China, with a reprinted debate, philosophical address, open letter, and magazine article...
...More ominous was another German voice heard last week, that of Oswald Spengler, long worded philosopher, who has prognosticated The Decline of the West (1918). Said he at Munich, in a speech supposed to do honor to Thomas Alva Edison...