History is philosophy drawn from
examples.
- DIONYSIUS OF HALICAR-NASSUS,
c. 10 BC
History is really the biographies
of great people.
- THOMAS CARLYLE
History is the actualizing of
a [Cultural] Soul.
- OSWALD SPENGLER, "Decline
of the West" volume I, page 147.
History would be incomplete without
a study of religion, which is one of the most universal activities known
to mankind, being practised across virtually all cultures - and throughout
all ages.
- THE GUINNESS ENCYCLOPEDIA,
1990; (adapted from page 458).
Links to articles:
Ancient Zimbabwean
Civilization
Who built the stone temples and mined the gold? And did the Lemba tribe
have a Jewish origin?
(Published in Mankind Quarterly (USA) in 2012: vol. 52
(nos. 3-4), pp. 323-335).
An earlier version of this study has been retained online, but renamed
anzim1
Oswald
Spengler & world history
Is there a pattern to the development & decay of civilisations?
If Spengler is right, it means that Europe has 'lost its way'...
Comparative Civilizations Review, USA, Autumn 2012, vol. 67,
pp.7-15.
An earlier version (including selected correspondence) has been retained
at spengws.html
as the handout at the Fifth Workshop in Political Theory in Manchester
(England) in September 2008.
Cultural Souls
reflected in their Mathematics: the Spenglerian interpretation
The mathematics developed in the Sino-Japanese High Culture focussed
on solving some quite intriguing geometrical problems - ones which most
Western mathematicians are completely unaware of. Other cultures, too,
have displayed their own characteristic style and preferences in this field.
Can we try and guess what type of mathematical thought might flower, in
the future, in the recently born Russian Culture?
Scientific Culture, (Greece), January 2016, vol. 2 no.
1, pp. 1-6.
The Aga Khan's
flock
What historical circumstances gave the Isma'ilis their distinctive
character?
Correspondence
& comments
Spengler; Music; Africa; Middle East Cultures;
Islam; Yahya; Tanasukh; Yockey; Nazis; Russia (including its Mathematics);
Jews; diaspora; Sabaeans; Lembas; Zimbabwe; Japan; Indus Valley & Dravidians;
Mayas; Buddhism in China; Virgin
Birth.
¿Países
Bajos españoles, o una Iberia unida?
La herencia de los territorios neerlandeses fue un accidente de la
historia, una tragedia innecesaria con consecuencias muy drásticas.
Evolución
de la Monarquía Española restablecida
Alfonso Borbón-Dampierre, el bisyerno de Franco, habría podido llegar a ser el Rey en lugar de Juan Carlos.
Algunas
notas sobre el Rey Alfonso VI de Castilla
Su cuarta esposa, Zá'ida, tiene el honor de ser la única
musulmana en la historia del mundo en llegar a ser una reina cristiana.
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