Foreword to Oswald Spengler's The Hour of Decision

1.

This is a book about form.

Indeed, the central Idea of the work is a morphological description of the dissolution of the Western state as a form. What Oswald Spengler means by the word “form” is that a Culture, when it is in form, functions exactly like a living organism. Think of an X-ray anatomy of an animal: it has a skeleton with nerve senses at th…