The decline of the West, Volume 2

CHAPTER I

ORIGIN AND LANDSCAPE

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THE COSMIC AND THE MICROCOSM

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Regard the flowers at eventide as, one after the other, they close in the setting sun. Strange is the feeling that then presses in upon you--a feeling of enigmatic fear in the presence of this blind dreamlike earth-bound existence. The dumb forest, the silent meadows, this bush, that twig, d...