ABSTRACT
On this soil, from 3000 b .c . onwards, there now grew up, here and there, the high Cultures/ Cultures in the narrowest and grandest sense, each filling
but a very small portion of the earth’s space and each enduring for hardly a thousand years. The tempo is that of the final catastrophes. Every decade has significance, every year, almost, its special “ look.” It is world-history in the most genuine and most exacting sense. This group of passionate lifecourses invented for its symbol and its 66 world ” the city, in contrast to the village of the previous stage — the stone city in which is housed a quite artificial living, that has become divorced from mother earth and is completely anti-natural — the city of rootless thought, that draws the streams of life from the land and uses them up into itself.1
