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The decline of the West, Volume 2

Volume 2 — INDEX (continued 2)

Charles Francis Atkinson translation

“versehen,” 126;

conception as sin, 272;

and Classical cults, 283;

orgiasm and asceticism, 283;

elements of duality, war, 327, 328;

and “form,” 331;

and State, 362.

See also Being; Family; Monasticism

Sforza, Catherine, heroism, 328

Shak-el-Arab, Mandæanism, 214 n.

Shamir Juharish, feudalism, 196

Shan-Kur {sic} Period, 416

Shang dynasty, mythology, 286, 379 n.

Shantung, Manichæans, Nestorians, and Islam, 260, 261

Shaping, and training, 331, 340

Shaw, George Bernard, on free woman, 105;

Undershaft as type, 475 n.;

on money and life, 484

Sheridan, Richard B. B., and French Revolution, 412

Shi, as title, 41, 418

Shi-hwang-ti, and second religiousness, 310;

and Chinese history, 434

Shi-King, as religious source, 286;

love songs, 352

Shia, and Chaldean, 176

Shiites, Logos-idea, 236 n.;

beginning, 424

Shirazi, philosophy, 321

Shneor Zalman ben Baruch. See Salman

Shu-Ching, as religious source, 286

Shuiski, Vassili, period, 192

Sibylline books, character of Classical, 244 n.

Sicily, Norman state, 372, 489;

democratic triumph, 396;

and Maniakes, 427 n.

Siculi, as name, 164

Siena, fortified towers, 355

Sight, as supreme sense, 6;

bodily and mental, 7;

and waking-being, 7;

lordship in man, 7–9;

invisible and fear, 8;

and race, 114, 128;

and words, 140;

and verbs, 143;

Arabian light-sensation, “cavern” and Logos, 233, 236, 237;

light and religion, 265.

See also Sense

Sign, and language, 134;

and script, 149

Signorelli, Luca, frescoes and the Devil, 292 n.

Simplicius, and commentary, 247

Sinuhet, biography, 387

Skeleton, and race, 124, 128–130, 175;

and landscape, 130

Skleros, power, 427

Skoptsi, as manifestation, 278

Skull. See Skeleton

Slavery, Roman freedmen and citizenship, 166 n.;

Classical and money, end, 349 n., 480, 488, 496;

Irak rebellion, 426;

attitude of Plebs, 451 n.;

technique, 479 n., 503;

Western status, 488 n.

Sleep, as vegetable, 7

Smith, Adam, relation to property, 345;

and Hume, 403;

and economic thought, 469;

theory of value, 491

Smith, Elliot, ethnological research, 129

Smiths, guild and tribe, 479

Socialism, money and movement, 402;

effect on Capitalism, 454, 464 n., 506 n.;

and Cæsarism, 506.

See also Marx

Society, origin, 343

Sociology, Jesus’ indifference, 217

Socrates, Rationalism, 307;

as spiritual heir and ancestry, 309

Sohm, Rudolf, on German jurisprudence, 80

Sol Invictus, cult, 201;

and Syncretism, 253

Solomon, fictitious, 72 n.;

Psalms, 213 n.

Solon, Egyptian influence, 62 n.;

character of law, 63–65;

and impiety, 282;

economics and politics, 475

Sombart, Werner, on book-keeping, 490

Sophists, and Socrates, 309;

and Chinese Cæsarism, 418

Sorel, Albert, and French Revolution, 399 n.

Soul, cultural and intercultural forms, 56;

cultural significance, 59;

of town, 90;

and language, 137;

and people, 165;

and spirit in Arabian dualism, indwelling, 234–236;

Western and Russian, 295 n.

See Religion; Spirit; Will

Sound, as sign of language, word, 134

Space, extension and waking-being, 7;

and truths, 12;

Arabian concept, 233;

and time and religion, 265.

See also Time

Spain, physical changes, 39 n.;

and Roman law, 77;

Jewish Culture, 316;

period of absolutism, 388;

Fronde conflict, 390;

origins of accountancy, 489

Sparta, helots, 332, 349, 357;

vis-à-vis Athens, 368;

royal succession, 380;

oligarchic-democratic struggle, 396, 397

Spartacus, and Cæsarism, 428 n.

Spartiates, as feudal, 375

Speaking, and language, 117, 125

Speculators, as cultural phenomenon, 484

Spence, Lewis, on Mexican chronology, 44 n.

Spener, Philipp J., Pietism, 308

Spenta Mainyu, Persian Holy Spirit, 244

Sphærus, influence, 454 n.

Spinden, Herbert J., researches in Mexican Culture, 44 n.

Spinoza, Baruch, Gnosis, 228;

Arabian metaphysic, 241, 321;

on contemplation, 242;

expulsion, 317

Spirit, Arabian pneuma, 57;

and soul in Arabian dualism, indwelling, 234–236.

See also Body; Religion; Soul; Waking-being

Sport, and Civilization, 103

Stanley, Arthur P., on Islam and Christianity, 304 n.

State. See Politics

States-General, calling, 373;

overthrow, 388

Statics, Roman law, 67

Steam-engine, effect, 502

Stein, Lorenz von, on money, 485

Stenography, character, 152

Sterility, and Civilization, 103–105

Stoicism, and jurisprudence, 62;

Rationalism, 307;

Pietism, 308;

and second religiousness, 312;

style of school, 345;

improvidence, 372;

and Cæsarism, ideologues and conspiracy, 433, 434;

political influence, 454

Streets, cultural attitude, 94

Stuarts, and Roman law, 365 n.;

and dynasty, 388, 389

Studion, monk-state, 314

Style, Western, external effects, 46;

intercultural, 87–89;

as urban, 92;

and Civilization, 108, 109;

rigid and living, surface mixture, 123;

priesthood and, of learning, 345

Su-tsin, career, 417;

character, 419

Subjects and objects, 369;

in politics, 441;

in economics, 479, 493

Submission, as Arabian concept, 240

Substance, Arabian religious concept, 244;

controversy and Christian split, 255–258.

See also Trinity

Succession Wars, character, 392

Sudra, as caste, 332;

and tribes, 348

Sufism, and Chaldean, 176;

Gnosis, 228;

and contemplation, 242;

Pietism, 308;

and Jewish Mysticism, 321.

See also Islam; Mysticism

Sulla, L. Cornelius, and princeps, 423;

and demagogy, 458;

and courts, 460

Sultanate, rise over caliphate, 425, 426

Sumer, and Arabian Culture, 189 n.

Sun-tse, on war, 417 n., 419 n.;

character, 419 n.;

anecdote, 420 n.

Sura, academy, 71, 200

Swedenborg, Emanuel, Pietism, 308;

and Yesirah, 316

Sybaris, destruction, 303, 394

Symbolism, farmhouse, 90;

peacock, 236;

cultural religious prime symbols, 279, 287, 288;

colour, 289;

clock, 300 n.;

Wandering Jew, 317;

printing, 413;

Classical coin, 486

Syncretic Church, and emperor-worship, 68;

as name, 68 n.;

cults and “Greeks,” 176;

Arabian churches in Classical style, 201;

reversal, Classical cults as Eastern Church, 102;

Paganism and Christianity, sacraments and other elements, 203, 204;

Jewish rescue, from, 210;

Jesus sects, 220 n.;

development, parallelism, 252;

State religion, 253;

monasticism, 254;

westward expansion, 255;

missionarism, 259;

end of theology, 261.

See also Pseudomorphosis; Religion

Syncretism, in second religiousness, 311–313. See also preceding title

Synesius, as Neo-Platonist, 252

Synod of a Hundred Chapters, 278

Synod of Antichrist, 278

Synœcism, Classical, 173, 355, 381, 382;

Roman, 383

Syntax, and grammar, 142;

period, 145

Syracuse, as provincial city, 99;

as megalopolis, 382 n.;

democratic triumph, 396;

colonization, 405;

class proscriptions, 405, 406 n.;

siege, 421;

and Plato’s theory, 454

Syrian Law-book, importance, 64, 70

Sze-ma-tsien, on Contending States, 417;

as compiler, 418 n.;

biographies, 454 n.

Taboo, relation to waking-being and language, 116, 154;

dependence on totem, 117, 265;

in art, 118;

and cathedral, 122;

and script, 151;

space-fear, 265;

and technique, 268, 271;

moral, and negations, 272, 342.

See also Totem

Tacitus, Cornelius, on Decemvirs’ code, 65;

philosophical confusion, 238;

and polis, 383;

on Musonius Rufus, 430;

and Cæsarism, 434 n.

Tai-dsung, and Islam, 261

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles de, as politician, 446

Talmud, as creed law, 69;

and Chaldean, 176;

development, influences, 208, 209

Tammany Hall, as type, 452 n.

Tannaim, class, 71

Tanvasar, and new Avesta, 250, 251

Taoism, and Pacifism, 185;

principle, 287;

alteration in concept, 307;

expansion, 308;

Syncretism, 312, 315;

of Han period, 314;

and priesthood, 352;

and Cæsarism, 434 n.

Tarquins, fall, 65

Tarragona, Jewish city, 316

Tartars, Russian release, 192

Taxes, purpose, 475 n.

Tchun-tsin-fan-lu, 454 n.

Technique, and truth, 144 n.;

and theory in religion, 268, 271;

and Classical city-religions, 285;

and Western science, 300, 302;

and Rationalism, 306;

development of military, 420–422;

influence on Western economic thought, 469;

machines and Western slavery, 488 n.;

and plant, 499;

of animal movement, involuntary, 499;

conscious-knowing, 499;

tyrannical theory, 500;

development out of nature, 500;

under Classical Culture, 500;

Western passion, Gothic, 501;

effect of steam-engine, 502;

religious origin, and Devil, 502, 504, 504 n., 505;

Western and infinity, conquest of nature, 503, 504;

machine-industry as master of Western Civilization, 504;

its agents, 504;

machine-industry as Western bourgeois, 504 n.;

other cultures and machine, 504 n.;

engineer as priest, 505;

struggle with money, 505

Telemachus, and dynasty, 380

Telescope, Chinese invention, 501 n.

Tell-el-Amarna letters, 166

Ten Thousand, as polis, 160 n.

Tenochtitlan, destruction, 44;

founding, character, 45, 99

Tension, and beat, 4;

and waking-being, 7;

and Civilization and intelligence, 102.

See also Waking-being

Tertullian, Montanist, 227;

and Western Church, 229;

period, 250

Teutoburger Wald, Varus’ defeat, 48 n.

Teutonic Knights, finance, 489

Tezcuco, as world-city, 99

Thebes, as Egypt, 95;

as world-city, 99;

rise of dynasty, 428

Themis, and Dike, 376, 378

Theocritus, “playing” with expression, 137

Theoderich, tomb, 89

Theodore of Studion, and Leo V, 425;

as party leader, 449

Theognis, and carpe diem, 383

Theory, development, dominance, 10, 500;

and technique in religion, 268, 271;

cultural attitude toward scientific, 301;

correctness and technical value, 500 n.

Thing, legal Classical notion, 60

Third Estate. See Democracy

Thirty Years’ War, as consequence, 181;

political aspect, 388, 391;

Wallenstein’s idea and fall, 389

Thomas, Saint, Gospel, 213 n.;

Acts, romances, 236, 251 n.

Thomas Aquinas, philosophy, 172 n.;

and Devil-cult, 291;

and sacraments, 293

Thought, defined, development of theoretical, 10;

and life, facts and truths, 11–13;

compulsion, 12;

causality-men, place in life, 16–19.

See also Waking-being

Thucydides, ahistoric, 24

Thurii, plan, 100

Tiberius, as historyful, 171;

economics and politics, 432, 475

Tikal, and Mexican Culture, 44

Tilly, Count of, and Wallenstein, 389

Time, and facts, 12;

and dynastic-idea, 179;

Arabian concept, ordained period, 238–240, 249;

and space and religion, 265;

and truth, 271;

mythology, 286.

See also Being; Destiny; History; Space

Tiresias, and Classical religious beginnings, 282, 350

Tities, tribe, 351, 382

Tobit, as Arabian, 208

Togrulbek, power, 427

Toledo, Jewish city, 316

Toleration, Classical and Arabian attitude, 203

Tolstoi, Leo, Western soul, 194–196;

conception of Jesus, 218

Topinard, Paul, race classification, 125

Totem, relation to being and race, 116;

in art, 118;

and dwelling-house, 121;

and castle, 122;

in language, 154;

time-fear and taboo, 265;

moral, 342.

See also Taboo

Touch, as primary sense, 6. See also Sense

Tournament, as manifestation of nobility, 352

Tours, importance of Saracen defeat, 192

Town, and Culture, 90;

soul, 90;

relation to country, 91;

cultural type, 91;

and market, 91, 480;

and style, 92;

“visage” as cultural, 93;

relation to landscape, 94;

city history as world-history, 95, 96;

domination of capital city, cultural basis, 95, 381;

and intellect, 96;

great and little, spiritual distinction, 97;

and monetary idea, and dictatorship, 97, 98;

Civilization and overflow, 100;

and writing, 152;

script speech, 155;

and nations, 171;

Russia and, 194;

and Renaissance-Reformation movement, 297;

and science, 300;

and Puritanism, 302;

and Rationalism, 305;

consciousness and personal freedom, 354, 356, 358;

burgher estate, 355;

movement of primary estates to, 355, 356;

and State-idea, 377;

relation of politics and economics, capitalism, 476, 477, 493;

effect on trade, 481, 484.

See also Causality; Megalopolitanism; Polis; Politics

Trade, and politics, 474;

as substitute for war, 474.

See also Economics

Tradition, place in cultural history, 338;

prevision law, 363;

of political leadership, 444

Training, and shaping, 331, 340

Trajan, historyless, 432

Tramilæ, as name, 164

Transubstantiation, new English controversy, 309 n.

Trdat of Armenia, State and Church, 253

Trebatius Testa, C., and Cicero, 458 n.

Tree of Knowledge, and cross, 180 n.

Tribes, Arabian pre-cultural associations, solution, 173, 176;

as names for priesthoods, 175;

occupational, 348, 479

Tribonian, as jurist, 73

Tribunate, and Plebs, 357;

beginning, status, as lawful Tyrannis, 394–398, 433;

consular, 397;

and Senate, survival, 397, 398, 433;

blind incident, 415 n.;

Marius as heir, 423;

and party, 451

Trinity, and Arabian pneuma, 68, 244. See also Logos; Substance

Triumvirates, and border States, 408;

and Cæsarism, 423;

first, 454

Troeltsch, Ernst, on Augustine as Classical, 241 n.

Trojan War, as beginning of history, 27;

feud or crusade, 282

Troubadours, Arabian, 198;

relation to Renaissance, 297

Truth, and facts, 11, 12, 47;

cultural basis, 58;

and speech, 137, 144;

abstract and living, 147;

Arabian pneuma, 242;

Arabian sacred book, 243;

experience, 268;

and time, 271;

and current of being, history, 274;

and politics, 368;

influence of press, 461.

See also Ethics; Faith

Tshou-li, on officialdom, 372

Tshun-tsin, period, 391

Tsi, in period of Contending States, 417

Tsin, imperialistic State, 38, 41;

and Taoism, 185;

and Tsu, 368;

rise in period of Contending States, 416–419

Tsu, and Tsin, 368;

in period of Contending States, 417, 418, 454

Tung Chung-Shu, on Middle Kingdom, 373 n.

Turfan manuscripts, 213 n., 252

Turgot, Anne R. J., overthrow, 411 n.

Turks, and Cæsarism, 426, 427

Tursha, as name, 164

Twelve Tables, character, 63, 65;

importance, 65 n.;

commentary, 66;

class law, 365;

significance, overthrow, 396

Tyche, and lot-choice of officials, 383

Tyrannis, first, preceding oligarchy, 375;

fall of Tarquinian, 382;

significance, 386;

and Tribunate, struggle for lawful, 394–398;

character of second, 405–408.

See also Politics

Ujjaina, as world-city, 99

Ulemas, law-men, 71

Ulpian, as jurist, 71

Unam sanctam bull, 376

Understanding, and sensation, 6;

language and emancipation, thought, 9, 10;

and reason, 13;

meaning, 133, 136;

as causal, 266;

and faith, 266, 269–271

United States. See Americans

Ur, tombs, 35 n.

Uxmal, and Mexican Culture, 45;

as world-city, 99

Valentinian III, Law of Citations, 73, 248

Valentinus, period, 250;

and substance, 256

Value, early lack of concept, 480;

money and value-in-itself, 482;

theories as subjective, 482 n.;

money and standard, 485 n.;

irrelation of Classical land and money, 487;

Classical attitude toward art, 487;

Western concept of work, 491–493.

See also Economics

Varro, M. Terentius, era, 239

Varus, P. Quintilius, defeat, site, 48, 487

Vasari, Giorgio, and return to nature, 291

Vase-painting, Exekias, 135

Vasili Blazheny, style, 89

Vassalage, rise and significance, 349;

change to money basis, 357.

See also Feudalism; Slavery

Vegetable. See Plant

Venice, and money-outlook, 97 n.;

small-scale traffic, 481 n.

Verbs, place in language development, 143

Vergennes, Comte de, as end of period, 398

Verres, Caius, wealth as object, 459

Vespasian, war on Judea, 210;

and ideologues, 434

Vesta, and economics, 472

Village, and town, 91

Vindex, unimportance, 50

Virtue, change in concept, 307

Vladimir of Kiev, epic cycle, 192

Vohu Mano, as Word of God, 244

Voltaire, and Rationalism, 305

Vries, Hugo de, mutation theory, 32 n.

Waking-being, as microcosmic, and being, 7, 11, 13;

visual thought, 7–9;

language and thought, 9, 10, 114;

life and thought, facts and truths, 11–13, 16;

adjustment to macrocosm, 14, 24;

and causality, 14;

and problem of motion, death, 14–16;

and intercultural history, 56;

and money, 98;

upward series of utterances, 116;

and taboo, 117;

willed activity, 133;

and reflection, 141;

cultural oppositions, 233;

and religion, 265, 499;

and priesthood, 335;

and economics, 473;

and sense, 499;

ultimate fall, 507.

See also Being; Causality; Economics; Intelligence; Language; Microcosm; Religion; Space; Town

Wallenstein, Albrecht von, idea, power and fall, 389

Wandering Jew, symbolism, 317

Wang, as title, 379

Wang-Cheng, rule, 41, 418, 423

War, and politics and economics, 330, 366, 440, 474;

and nobility, 351;

as great creator, 362;

as normal Classical condition, 385;

character of Baroque, 392;

Pe-Ki as general, 417 n.;

Sun-tse as authority, 417 n., 419 n.;

change in character under Civilization, 419–422;

nineteenth-century substitute, 428;

expected Western period, 429;

as cultural necessity, 429, 434;

relation to press, 460;

and hunger, 471.

See also Army; Peace

Wartburg, cathedral art, 123

Washington, plan, 100 n.

Washington Conference, as prelude of war, 430

Wealth. See Economics; Money

Wedgwood, Josiah, ware, 491

Wei-Yang, character, 419

Weill, Raymond, on Hyksos, 428 n.

Weininger, Otto, Arabian metaphysic, 322

Weissenberg, Samuel, on Jewish type, 175

Wellington, Duke of, rise, 406

Welser, city nobility, 356

Wenceslaus, as emperor, 376

Wesley, John, practical Pietism, 308

Westermann, Diedrich, language investigation, 140

Western Culture, as historic, 28;

and human and universal history, 28;

individuality in historical attunement, 29, 30;

future historical achievement, 30, 46, 47, 55;

landscape and outside effect, 46;

transfer of Christianity to, 59, 235, 237, 258;

independent legal development, 75, 76;

Roman law in, 76–78;

effect of Roman law, 78–83;

and antique, 79;

future jurisprudence, 80–83, 505;

future cities, 101;

present stage of Civilization, 109;

and mother tongue, 120;

and script, 150;

and people, 169;

nations under, dynastic-idea, 179–181, 378, 381;

races, nations, and dynasties, 181–183;

dynastic-idea and overthrow of monarchy, language-idea, 183;

Charles Martel and avoidance of pseudomorphosis, 192;

and Russia, 192;

newness of religion, depth-experience as symbol, 288, 294 n.;

Mary-cult and Devil-cult, 290–294;

guilt and free-will, sacraments, 292, 293;

contrition, 293–295;

personality-concept, 293;

Calvin-Loyola opposition and world-politics, 299;

and practical mechanics, 300;

dynamic character of Rationalism, 309;

probable character of second religiousness, 311 n.;

religion and style of learning, 346;

style of nobility, genealogical principle, 350;

style of priesthood, 352;

relation of primary estates, 353;

capital city, 381;

reading and writing, 413;

money as function, 489–493;

capital and financial organization, 493, 494;

future, 507.

See also Baroque; Cultures; Gothic; Politics; Technique

Westminster Confession, on Grace, 242

Westphalia, Peace of, effect on nobility, 391

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Ulrich von, on patriarchal kingdom, 380 n.

Will, Arabian attitude, submission, 235, 240;

Arabian Grace, 241, 242;

Western free-will and sacraments, 292, 293;

Russian attitude, 295 n.

William I of England, and property, 371

William of Occam, will and reason, 241

Wilson, Woodrow, as tool, 475

Winchester, Eng., as royal residence, 92 n.

Winckler, Hugo, on post-exilic Jews, 205

Witchcraft, Western cult, 291;

persecution, 302

Woman. See Sex

Words, cult-colouring of prime, 116;

as language sound, 134;

as to origin, 137, 138;

and names, 138–141;

and modern gesture, 140 n.;

and sentence, 141;

acquisition, 142;

vocabularies and grammar, 147;

alien provenance, 148;

and conscious technique, 499.

See also Language

Work, quantity and quality in Western concept of value, 491–493

Works, religious technique and moral, 272. See also Faith

World-city. See Megalopolitanism

World War, and passage to Cæsarism, 418;

effect on universal military service, 429;

and military art, 421;

and Marxism, 455;

guilt question, 461 n.;

Allied press propaganda, 462 n., 463

Worms, Diet of, code, 76

Writing, cultural relation, 36, 146, 150;

Arabian religions and scripts, 73, 150, 227 n.;

Egyptian, 108;

grammatical decomposition, 145, 146;

technique of signs and thoughts, 146;

and linguistic history, 147;

and “present” training, 149;

dependence on grammar, 149;

and reading, 149;

and extension and duration, 150;

and historical endowment, 150;

and colloquial language, 150;

relation to race, as taboo, ornament, 151;

city and utilitarian, standardization, 152, 155;

stenography, 152;

dependence of world history on, 153.

See also Language

Wu, State, annihilation, 422

Wu-ti, as ruler, 41

Wullenweber, Jürgen, economics and politics, 475

Wundt, Wilhelm M., an origin of language, 138

Wyclif, John, and reform, 296

Xenophon, and class dictatorship, 404

Yahweh cult, 201

Yang-Chu, materialism, 309

Yellow Turbans, insurrection, 314

Yeomanry, lack in England and United States, 449 n. See also Peasantry

Yesirah, rational Mysticism, 316

Yiddish, character, 150 n.

Yorck von Wartenburg, Graf, and Napoleon, 406 n.

Zaddikism, 322

Zaleucus, laws, 64

Zama, battle, and Hellenism, 191, 422

Zarathustra, basis of religious reform, 168;

Jewish contemporaries, 205.

See also Mazdaism; Zend Avesta

Zechariah, Persian influence, 208

Zend Avesta, commentary, 247;

new, Mazdaism, 251

Zeno, and property, 344

Zimmern, Heinrich, on Jesus as Mandæan, 214 n.

Zionism, character, 210

Zoroaster. See Zarathustra

Zrvanism, rise, 256

Zwingli, Ulrich, as Gothic, 296

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