East and West
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Published: July 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780900588341
Subjects: History; History: World; Comparative civilization; History - General History; Civilization; Philosophy / Eastern; Religion / Theosophy; Civilization, Western; Civilization, Oriental; East and West
First sentence: THE CIVILIZATION of the modern West appears in history as a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one that has developed along purely material lines, and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincides with the so-called Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it was fated to be, by a corresponding intellectual regress; we say corresponding and not equivalent, because here are two orders of things between which there can be no common measure.