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The Sense of the Horizon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

C. Delisle Burns D.Lit.
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Not for the first time in the history of our tradition, we are conscious of the defects of our inheritance and look doubtfully forward to a future whose structure we can hardly surmise. There was a Decline of the West in the first years of our era and again at the close of the Middle Ages. Now once more the beliefs and customs are shaken, on which our tradition is based; and there is no certainty that we shall carry forward what that tradition has so far achieved into a new form of civilized life. But, on the other hand, there is no reason to suppose that Western Civilization will disappear.

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Philosophy , Volume 8 , Issue 31 , July 1933 , pp. 301 - 317
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1933

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References

page 307 note 1 The classical evidence for “unrest” is in Thucydides, III, 82, 84.

page 309 note 1 Isis and Orisis, chap. 78.

page 309 note 2 Enneads, VI, 11, translated by MacKenna, S., vol. v, p. 249.Google Scholar

page 311 note 1 Cf. Ockham in de Sacramento Allans: “Non est substantia nisi quantitas,” —a sort of premonition of Descartes’ res extensa.

page 312 note 1 H. Cornelius Agrippa, De Vanitate Scientiarum.