Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West. An abridged edition by
Helmut Werner. English abridged edition prepared by Arthur Helps
from the translation by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York:
oxford University Press c199 [1926, 1928, 1932]. xxxx,415, xvix
Conclusion [415]
For us, however, whom a Destiny has placed in this culture and at
this moment of its development--the moment when money is
celebrating its last victories, and the Caesarism that is to
succeed approaches with quiet, firm step--our direction, willed
and obligatory at once, is set for us within narrow limits, and
on any other terms life is not worth the living. We have not the
freedom to reach to this or to that, but the freedom to do th
necessary or to do nothing. And a task that historic necessity
has set will be accomplished with the individual or
against him.
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