In Turkey, kinetic President Mustafa Kemal holds that intellectual progress depends solely upon quick assimilation of Western ideas.
But in Germany, Oswald Spengler lucubrates that Western civilization, now toppling over a wave crest, declines by morphological law.
In Russia, Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky cries savagely against the soul because it individualizes man, believes that all men must be welded indistinguishably into a massman, that the only soul is the collective soul of all men.
In Africa, many a tribal chieftain organizes periodic Bacchanalian orgies to ward off extinction, maintain virility.
These and...
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