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The decline of the West, Volume 1

Note 108 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

The nearest English equivalent is perhaps the word “fear.” “Fearful” would correspond exactly but for the fact that in the second sense the word is objective instead of subjective. The word “shy” itself bears the second meaning in such trivial words as gun-shy, work-shy.—Tr.

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