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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

A

accretions, p99

Acropolis, p109

adolescentia,  p109

aesthetic, p105     

Alcibiades, p109

Alexandria,   p112

allegro con brio,  p109

Amanahet III (Hyksos sphinx),   p108

analogous,  p111 

andante,  p109

Aphrodite, Cnidian,   p108
Apollonian soul, p105 

Archimedes & Galileo, p111; as contemporary to Gauss,   p112

Archytas contemporary to Laplace,   p112

Aryans, p106

Attic sculptor & Baroque, p 110; and drama,  p110

Augustus and Chinese Shih- huang-ti,   p112

 

B

Babylon, p99

Bach contemporary to Polycletus,   p112

Bacon, Roger, p99            

Baghdad, p109,  p112

Bantu, p106

Baroque, p 110, contemporary to Ionic,   p112

Benares, p99

Berbers, p106

Bernward, Bishop, p107

Bruno, p96

Buddha, & Christ, p111 

Byron, p110
Byzantinism, p106

 

C

Caesar and Wallenstein,  p111 

Cairo,  p109  

Carthaginians, p106

centre of time, p 103

Champs Elysees to the Louvre,  p109  

Chinese Shih-huang-ti & Augustus,   p112

Chinese historian, p 94     

Christ & Buddha,  p111 

Christian art, early,  p107; catacombs, early,  p107

Chronological number, p97

City-State,  p110
Civilization, p106

Classic World and Persian wars, p110; individuality of,  p110

Classical coinage to double entry book keeping, p112

Classical sculpture & western orchestration, p111 

Classicism,   p108
cognition, p 94     

comprehension, p 94     

contemplation, p 94     

contemporary,   p112

Contending States period, Punic Wars & Hyksos in Egypt,  p111 

Counter Reformation,  p107

counterpoint,   p108
cosmopolis (of Western Europe) , p99            

counterpoint & Baroque, p 110  

 

D

Dante, Epoch of Rigveda and Plotinus,  p111 

Darwin, p105; and Darwinism, p105, p109; and Origin of Species,  p109

Descartes contemporary to Pythagoras,   p112

Dieu le veult,  p110
Dionysia,  p110; and Dionysian movement,  p111 and analogous to the Reformation”,  p111, & Renaissance p111; &

Protestantism, p112

Dipylon vase,  p107Direction, p99            

Don Quixote, p101

Doric, early Homeric,  p107

double entry book keeping to Classical coinage,   p112

Durer, head (portraits of), p103

Durward, Quentin, p96

 

E

Egypt, Old Kingdom 4th dynasty,  p107; and see  pyramids & Gothic cathedrals,  p111;  Middle

Kingdom,  early, p107.

Egypticism, p 106

English Puritanism, p112, and Islam, p112

enunciation,  p109

Epoch of Rigveda, Plotinus & Dante,  p111 

esoteric,   p108

Euclid, geometry,  p110; his mathematics of separate bodies,  p109

Euripides’ Bacchae,  p111  
Extension, p99            

 

F

faddy,  p110

Faraday, p100           

Faust, p101,  Faust I (Goethe as Hamlet),  p110; Faust II,  p111

Faust-eye, p104

First tyrannis and the Fronde,   p112

Form, Principle of, p97

forum Romanum,  p109

Franks, p106
fresco,   p108
 

G

Galilean mechanics & Baroque, p 110

Galileo & Archimedes,  p111 

Gauss contemporary to Archimedes,   p112

Germans, p106; and parcelled,  p111 
gladiatorial contests,  p110
Goethe p109, his individuality, p 110, Faust, p 110; Farbenlehre, p 110 ; Reineke Fuchs, p 110;,Tasso,

 p110, Werther, p 110; Journey to Italy, p 110; Fredericke love, p 110; Westöstlicher Divan,

 p110, Romische Eligien, p110; prime phenomenon,   p113; Urfaust (Goethe as Perzival), p110;

Faust II and Goethe, man of 19th  century,  p110

Gothic,  p107; and cathedrals & 4th dynasty pyramids, p111 

Greece & parcelled Germany,  p111 

Grenada,  p109  

 

H

Habitatus (botany) ,   p108
Hagia Sophia, domes of,   p108

Hall of the Maidens Erechtheum,   p108
Han dynasty, p94     

Hannibal to WWI,   p112

Hellenistic sculpture of Sophocles, p103

Heraclitus,  p109

Herder, p105

Hiero's Syracuse,  p109

History, p93; History and Nature, p94

Hildesheim Cathedral,  p107

homology,  p111  and “homologous forms” ,  p111 

Horace,  p109

horseshoe arches, Arabasques of Arabian,   p108
Hyksos in Egypt & Contending States period & Punic Wars p111 

 

I

Indian Buddhism & Roman Stoicism, p111

inventus, p109

Ionic column, p110; & Baroque, p 110 and as contemporary to Baroque,   p112

Isis,   p108
Islam,   p112 and compared to Puritanism,   p112

 

J

Justinian, Emperor, p107

K

Kelts, p106
 

L

Laplace contemporary to Arvchytas,   p112

Law, p95 and Principle of, p97

Leibniz, p105 and mathematics of infinite space”, p109

logical differentiation, p99            

 

M

Madrid of Phillip II,  p109

Mandarinism, p106

Mathematical number, p97; mathematical delimitation, p99 and & Baroque, p 110  
Mithras,   p108
Minnesanger,  p110

modulus, p 93

Mongols, p106
Morphology, p100 and  morphological connections, p113

Mosaic painting & Baroque, p 110

Mozart,   p108
 

N

Nature, p93 and History, p94        

number, p95

Nurnberg cathedral, Historical head, p103


O

Ommayads & Age of Pericles p111  

os interlmaxilla, p105, p111 

Owen,  p111 

P

palaeontology,   p113

Palestrina, p97

panem et circuses of imperial age,  p110
paradigm, p102

Parthian, p106

Peisistratidae,  p107

Pergamene art homologous to Wagner,  p111 

Pericles, Age of & Ommayads,  p111  

Perzival, Souls oath,  p110

Petrach, Springtime of,  p110
Philip II,  p109

Phillip & Alexander contemporary to Revolution-1789 & Napoleon,   p112

philologist, p105                 

Physiognomic, p100;  and importance,   p112; and rhythm [physiognomic pattern] ,   p113

Piazza St Peter’s Rome,  p109  

plastic,   p108
Plato,  p109, his Timaeus,  p111 

Plotinus, p96 and Dante & Epoch of Rigveda,  p111 

Polycletus contemporary to Bach,   p112

Polygnotus contemporary to Rembrandt,   p112

prepossession, p93

Protestantism & Dionysia movement,   p112

protomystecism,   p108
Provence,  p107

pueritia,  p109

Punic Wars & Hyksos in Egypt & Contending States period p111 

Pythagoras contemporary to Descartes,   p112

Q

R

Ranke, p96

Raphael,  p109

recapitulates,  p110

Rembrandts’ self-portraits, p101 and head (portraits of) p103; as contemporary to Polygnotus,   p112

Renaissance & Dionysian movement,  p111 

resume,  p111 

Revolution-1789 & Napoleon contemporary to Phillip & Alexander,   p112

Roman legion,  p110

Roman Stoicism & Indian Buddhism p111 

Romanesque,  p107 and Romanesque-Gothic church porches of Saxony & S France,  p107

Romanticism,   p108
round, the   p108


S

Scott, Sir Walter, p96

senectus,  p109

Sophists, p98

Sophocles,  p109

Sorel, George, p101 

Sub specie aeternitatis, p103

sun cult,   p108
syncretism,  p111 

Systematic, p100     

      

T

Takt,  p109

Thebes, p99            

Themistocles,  p109

Thuthmosis, p94     

Tiberius,  p109

Titian, paintings of,   p108
tropic,  p110
troubadour,  p107

Tyrannis,  p110


U

Urfaust (Goethe as Perzival),  p110

V

Via Sacra,  p109

virilitas,  p109

W

Wagner, p97, and his Parsifal,  p111; and homologous to Pergamene art,  p111 

Wallenstein, p111; and Caesar, p111 

Washington,   p112

Watteau,   p108
wave train, p106

Werther, p101 

western orchestration & Classical sculpture,  p111

 WWI & Hannibal,   p112

Z

Y

Z

zoology, comparative,   p113

Zwinger of Dresden,   p108

Chapter III. The Problem of World History: (1) Physiognomic and Systematic
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