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...cavortings, whoopings and gurglings of dim-witted adolescents more akin to 17th century Algonquin Indians than to the founders of this great Republic, devotees of rock 'n' roll music prove conclusively that Homo neanderthalensis is still with us. If politicians in Washington go for it, then assuredly Spengler was right...
...decisions, students study techniques from linear algebra to clinical psychology to computer programming. Along with other required courses, for example, they study "Ideas in the Changing Environment"-how society and business have interacted in important historical periods. First-semester required reading spans 17 books, from Darwin to Freud to Spengler...
...which transformed the study of the cell; Nicolaus Steno was studying the development of the earth's crust; Olaus Roemer was determining the velocity of light. And John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, was proposing a theory of representative government with such eloquence that Oswald Spengler was later to conclude that Locke was the architect of the Western Enlightenment...
Cultural Interaction. McNeill's title would appear to give the lie direct to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. His book indeed emerges, though he nowhere claims such a purpose, as an arresting alternative to the speculations and systems of Arnold Toynbee, too. Here are no gloomy metaphysics about the soul of a culture or its organic life cycle, no simplistic tabulations of 21 separate civilizations mechanically rising and then running down in helpless isolation from one another...
Recently published in England, Crowds and Power impressed all critics with its erudition, dazzled some into superlatives, and numbed others. Like Spengler, Toynbee and other sweeping theorists, Canetti casts a net over all of human history and tends to describe the entire sea from what he finds...