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...Cunningham calls for the self-assured decisiveness that was characteristic of his own generation. When he witnesses the torrents of debate on the campuses of today's Ivy League, he bewails the lack of "leadership," the decay of "moral courage...
...cultures develop uniformly, the course of an unfinished cycle can be predicted. As early as 1911, when his great work was conceived, Spengler foresaw for Western1 culture 1) not only World War I but World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...
...wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...
Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun by Latins, Franks, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks. Their culture and even their language disintegrated. Their country was pauperized and depopulated. For 20 centuries the government they had devised was only a memory. Then democracy once more stirred in the world, on the shores of the Atlantic. A few patriots and idealists...
...Romans, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came & went, and still Persia was going strong. Not until the 18th Century, after some 6,000 continuous years of art, culture and prosperity, did Persia finally bite the dust. Even then it was European commercial competition, more than her own decay, that killed...