IMPERIUM

Foreword

“this book marks the end of rationalism”…”Henceforth there will be no discussion of action in
terms of abstract thought” 9

“The word Europe changes its meaning: from now it means the Western Civilization, the
organic unity which created as phases of its life the nation-ideas of Spain, Italy, France,
England and Germany. These former nations are all dead; the era of political nationalism has
passed. This has not happened through logical necessity, but through organic advance of the
History of the West. It is this organic necessity which is the source of our imperative, and of
the integration of Europe.”9

“No trade and banking, not importing and exporting, but Heroism alone can liberate that
integrated soul of Europe which lies under the financial trickery or retarders, the petty-
stateism of party politicians, and the occupying armies of extra-european forces” 10

“Did you think it was over? Do you think that your misery and shame will remain securely
forever on a world-stage which has seen true heroes upon it? In the war which you let loos,
you taught men how to die, and thereby you have freed a spirit which will engulf you next, the
Spirit of Heroism and Discipline. There is no currency that can buy this spirit, but it can
overcame any currency” 11

-economy-

“Outside these two areas (Egypt and Babylonian), the rest of the earth has remained
unchanged. The human bands are distinguishable from herding-animals only by a primitive
culture, and a more intricate economy. Otherwise their existence-forms are devoid of
significance. The primitive cultures are the sole thing existing above the plane of economics, in
that they attribute symbolic significance to natural occurrences and human conduct.” 18

-enemy-

“Each culture-soul is stamped with individuality; from the others it takes nothing, and to them
it gives nothing. Whatever is on its frontiers is the enemy, whether primitive or culture-
populations. They all are barbarians, heathens, to the proper culture, and no understanding
passes between them. We saw the Western peoples prove the life worthiness of the European
culture by their crusades against the highly civilized Saracens, Moors, and Turks. We saw the
Germanic populations in the east and their visigothic brothers in the south push the barbarian
Slavs and the civilized Moors continually back during centuries. We saw Western ships and
Western armies make the whole world into the object of booty for the west. These were the
relations of the west to that and those outside.” 20

-Rationalism- economy vs faith-traditionalism (Civilization vs culture)

“Civilizations, the life of the material, the external, of power, giant economies, armies, and
fleets, of great numbers and colossal technics, over Culture, the inner life of religion,
philosophy, arts, domination of the external life of politics of the beast of prey in man, feelin of
cultural unity. It is the victory of Rationalism, Money and the great city over the traditions of
religion and authority, of Intellect over Instinct.” 21

(((((((There is an organic nature in the high cultures))))) Chapter III of “perspective”

-Organic culture

“Since a Culture is organic, it has an individuality, and a soul. (…) It has a destiny, like all
organism,. It has a period of gestation, and a birth time. It has a growth, a maturity, fulfillment,
a down going, and a death. Because it has a soul, all of its manifestations will be impressed by
the same spiritual stamp, just as each man´s life is the creation of his own individuality.
Because it has a soul, this particular culture can never come again after it has passed. Like the
nations it creates to express phases of its own life. There will never be another Indian culture,
Aztec- Mayan culture, Classical culture, or Western culture, any more that there will be a
second Spartan nation, Roman nation, French or English nation. Since a cultre is organic, it has
a life-span” 22- 23

(((((this is a different interpretation of the lineal and progress history that have liberalism and
communism. The last one pretends, since its vision, wipe out with the real multiculturalism
because wants to homogenizer the individuals in homo economicus, in other words, in animal
laborans)))

-(Destiny-organic - will/ causality- inorganic-reason)

“Destiny is the hallmark of everything living. Destiny-thinking is the type of thought which
understands living, and it is the only kind which does. The other method of human thought is
that of casuality. This method is inwardly compulsory in dealing with inorganic problems of
technics, mechanics, engineering, systematic natural philosophy. It finds the limits of its
efficacy there, however, and is grotesque when applied to life.

The destiny-idea is the central motive of organic thinking. If aims at subjugation of things to
understanding; it wishes to name everything, to make outlines distintic, and then to link
phenomena together by classification and causal linkage. Kant is the height of this type of
thinking, and to this side of western philosophy belong also Hume, Bacon, Schopenhauer,
Hamilton, Spencer, Mill, Bentham, Locke, Holbach, Descartes. TO the organic side belong
Macchiavelli, Vico, Montaigne, Leibniz, Lichtenberg, Pascal, Hobbes, Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle,
Nietzsche and Spengler.” 23-24

(((((A political interpretation have implicity an history, being, and world interpretation. And
liberalism with communism, share a materialism interpretation of being, a lineal and progress
of history)))