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brain-region graphically: * see EndNote<A>

Neuroscience of the late 19th century began to graph & diagram the functional nature of the brain. 

 

ego habeo factum:

Latin, I have done

 

feci:

Latin, done

 

Macrocosm:

a word Spengler uses to describe the totality of Culture symbols produced by a given Culture, to include images, language, forms of mathematics, indeed the entire compass of life within the Culture.

 

culture-man:

Spengler is referring to an individual who is a subset of a specific Culture such as Faustian man, or Apollonian man, as an individual who reflects the Culture he is of

 

Destiny:

Spengler’s concept that a Culture has a predetermined end, a pattern of birth, growth, decay & death and all related achievements & failures

Decline of the West, Chapter IX: Soul-Image  & Life-Feeling. (I) On The Form Of The Soul 
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