“America’s battle is yet to fight; and we, sorrowful though nothing doubting, will wish her strength for
it. New Spiritual Pythons, plenty of them, enormous Megatherions, as ugly as were ever born of mud,
loom huge and hideous out of the twilight Future on America;
it. New Spiritual Pythons, plenty of them, enormous Megatherions, as ugly as were ever born of mud,
loom huge and hideous out of the twilight Future on America;
and she will have her own agony, and her
own victory, but on other terms than she is yet quite aware of.”
— Thomas Carlyle
own victory, but on other terms than she is yet quite aware of.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Will the intellectually primitive upper class, obsessed as it is with the thought of money, reveal all at
once, in face of this danger, dormant moral forces that will lead to the real construction of a State and
once, in face of this danger, dormant moral forces that will lead to the real construction of a State and
to
spiritual preparedness to sacrifice possessions and blood to it, instead of regarding war as a means of
gaining wealth, as hitherto?”
— Oswald Spengler
spiritual preparedness to sacrifice possessions and blood to it, instead of regarding war as a means of
gaining wealth, as hitherto?”
— Oswald Spengler
