The Development of Architecture in Connection with the Turn of the Millennium

GA 286/1914-03-07/p007 ·1914-03-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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It is these Ahrimanic spirits that are now reasserting their influence as we approach the year 2000. But development proceeds in pendulum swings: in the year 1000, people expected the end of the world; in the year 2000, they expect exactly the opposite; in the year 3000, they will again expect the end of the world, but the world will then have become such that entire peoples will long for this end of the world. One can say without sentimentality that European humanity is heading for terrible times.

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