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All Cultures Are Mortal

by Oswald Spengler

Aug 13, 2026
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Oswald Spengler presents transience as the deepest law of history: cultures die, peoples dissolve, art becomes mute, truths fade, and whole worlds disappear with the souls that created them.

This is an excerpt from Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, from the new English translation and one-volume abridgment by Constantin von Hoffmeister.

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