Jean Delville, “Prometheus,” 1907
2,005 words
Edited by Kerry Bolton
No European can ever know the price, quality, and intensity of the love which a colonial brings to the history and the works of the Western culture. No matter how sensitive he is by nature, no matter how high the cultural-historical focus to which he contain and hold, the European—and I have in mind such beings as Goethe, Fichte, Carlyle, and Leonardo—must of necessity take many things for granted. The houses, the streets, the society, the universal diffusion of culture—he grows up in this atmosphere, having nothing with which to contrast it. Not only concepts, but feelings also, form themselves by polarity. Read more …
From the Notebooks
Samuel van Hoogstraten, Still Life, 1668
667 words
Editor’s Note:
The following text is an excerpt from Yockey’s notes transcribed and annotated by Kerry Bolton. The style and format suggest the early 1950s.
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