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...salt of the earth," to the American Bar Association committee on citizenship who quite recently formulated a credo: "I believe that we Americans have the best government that has been created" smug pride of nation still persists, but it is steadily and increasingly challenged by Jeremiads such as Spengler's Decline of the West, Einstein's scorn of U. S. intelligence, Siegfried's despair of U. S. materialism. Just how science and the machine have affected civilization; just what the possibilities are of self-destruction, "decline," as compared with perpetuity?these are questions for a modern Aristotle with "all knowledge...
...LIVING BUDDHA-Paul Morand-Henry Holt ($2.50). Spengler and Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...book "The Decline of the West", Oswald Spengler harps, so to speak, upon a variation of an old theme--that history repeats itself. Every civilization, he says, travels the same path; every one has a spring, a summer, an autumn and a winter. There is nothing new under...
...thinkers go by petition or invitation to contemplate problems of great moment to mankind; where philosophical treatises are conceived, prescribed, submitted, criticized, developed, issued to the world. Count Keyserling's chief preoccupation is with the Western World, whose soul and mind he and others (notably Herr Doktor Oswald Spengler) profess to find in a decline. He has equipped himself to serve the Western World as one of its philosophers by visiting practically all the world. The publication of his Travel Diary of a Philosopher last year gained him his first wide hearing outside of Germany, being an account...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...