quinta-feira, 22 de março de 2018

A crise da mente

“I have claimed that the imbalance maintained for so long in Europe's favor was, by its own reaction, bound to change by degrees into an imbalance in the opposite direction. That is what I called by the ambitious name of basic theorem.
“How is this proposition to be proved? I take the same example, that of the geometry of the Greeks; and I ask the reader to consider the consequences of this discipline through the ages. We see it gradually, very slowly but very surely, assumin...
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Lengthy extract from Paul Val�ry's Crisis of the Mind (1919)
historyguide.org

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