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Oswald Spengler.
The Decline of the West.
An abridged edition by Helmut Werner. Englishabridged edition prepared by Arthur Helps from the translation by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York: oxford University Press c199 [1926, 1928, 1932]. xxxx,415, xvix
IMITATION AND ORNAMENT [102]
All art is expression-language. This expression is either  ornament or imitation. Both are higher   possibilities...I. ImitationA.Earlier and more characteristic of raceB.Born of the secret rhythm of all this cosmicC.Every live religion is an effort of the waking soul to reach the powers of the world-around. And so too is Imitation which in its most devoted moments is wholly religious1.Consists in an identity of inner activity between the soul and body "here" andthe world around "there" which, ... become one.D.Let ourselves go in common song or parade-march or dance1.creates out of many units one unit of feeling and expression, a "we"E.All imitation is in the broadest sense dramatic;1.drama in movements of brush stroke or chisel2.melodic curse of song3.tone of recitation4.line of poetry5.the description6.the danceF.Only the living can be imitated1.can be imitated only in movements2.belongs to time and directionG.Expresses something by accomplishing itself H.Possess beginning and endII.Ornament - does not follow the stream of life but rigidly faces itA.Established motives, symbols, impressed upon itB.Intention not to pretend but to conjureC.The "I" overwhelms the "Thou."D.Imitation is speaking with means that are born of the moment andunreproducibleE.employs a languages emancipated from speaking1.stock of forms that possess duration and is not at the merc of the individualF.Removed from Time1.pure extension, settled and stableG.Expresses by presenting itself to the senses as a finished thing1.Being as such, wholly independent of origin.H.Possesses only duration
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Thanks for making it easier. The Original Spengler work is extremely difficult as you know. On the other hand your upload is very useful.

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