The Decline of the West.

" . . . Goethe's form-fulfilment and Darwin's evolution, are in as complete opposition as destiny to causality . . . "^1a

" . . . [T]here is not the slightest trace of evolution towards a race of greater utilitarian 'fitness' . . . [H]uman life-form . . . originates in a sudden mutation (Wandlung) of which the 'whence,' 'how' and 'why' remain an impenetrable secret."^1b* DARWIN MILL CARNEGIE

"There is no proletarian, not even a communist, movement that has not operated in the interest of money . . . [E]very Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism."^1c

"In the form of democracy, money has won."^1d

"Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect."^1e JEFFERSON SCHUMPETER

"Politics and trade in developed form -- the art of achieving material successes over an opponent by means of intellectual superiority -- are both a replacement of war by other means."^1f CLAUSEWITZ HERZL SARTRE

"In reality, money, like number and law, is a category of thought."^1g*

"Thinking in money generates money -- that is the secret of the world economy."^1h* DIOGENES MARX HERZL SUZUKI

"The sword is victorious over money, the master-will subdues again the plunderer-will. . . A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and only one power that can confront money is left. Money is overthrown and abolished by blood. Life is alpha and omega . . . It is the fact of facts within the world-as-history."^1i* OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT HAYEK

* Italics in the original.

¹ Oswald Spengler (1880-1936). 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. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991. The Decline of the West was originally published in two volumes: Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Gestalt und Wirklichkeit, 1918, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandling, Munich; and Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Welthistoriche Perspektiven, 1922, C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandling, Munich.
^a Origin and Landscape: The Group of the Higher Cultures, at 231.
^b Origin and Landscape: The Group of the Higher Cultures, at 232.
^c State and History, at 367; Philosophy of Politics, at 390.
^d State and History, at 379.
^e Philosophy of Politics, at 396.
^f The Form-World of Economic Life: Money, at 402.
^g The Form-World of Economic Life: Money, at 404.
^h The Form-World of Economic Life: Money, at 408.
ⁱ The Form-World of Economic Life: The Machine, at 414.

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