...facts of a late life, to which the parallel is to be found not in Pcriclcs's Athens but in Oesar's Rome. Of great painting or great music there can no...these hundred years. Only extensive possibilities arc left to them. Yet, for a sound and vigorous generation that is filled with unlimited hopes, I fail...

...lost there still remain many other things to the present generation, and perhaps much better things. Of great painting or great music there can no longer be, for Western people, any question. . . . Only extensive possibilities are left to them. Yet, for a sound and vigorous generation that...

...reckon with the hard cold facts of a late life, to which the parallel is to be found not in Pericles' Athens but in Caesar's Rome. Of great painting or...extensive possibilities are left to them. Yet, for a sound and vigorous generation that is filled with unlimited hopes, I fail to see that it is any disadvantage...

...The nineteenth century had to confront "the cold, hard facts of a late life. . . . Of great paintings or great music there can no longer be, for Western people, any question."49 Spengler does not use the term "degenerate," but that certainly describes his civilized...

...Nietzsche. The nineteenth century had to face 'the cold, hard facts of a late life. . . . Of great paintings or great music there can no longer be, for Western people, any question.' Spengler does not use the term 'degenerate,' but that certainly describes his civilized man."32 As...

...reckon with the hard cold facts of late life, to which the parallel is to be found not in Pericles' Athens but in Caesar's Rome. Of great painting or...possibilities have been exhausted these hundred years ... we have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full...