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The Crisis of the Mind” (1919), with a somber pronouncement: “
We later civilizations. we too now know that we are mortal.” Meditating on the disappearance of earlier civilizations, he observed:
We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all. We are aware that a civilization has the same fragility as a life. The circumstances that could send the works of Keats and Baudelaire to join the works of Menander are no longer inconceivable; they are in the newspapers.
Apart from this reminder of how much perishes by accident, the most searing lesson for Valéry was the paradoxical spectacle of great virtues and skills tumbling into the madness of self-destruction. The tree of knowledge had borne evil fruit. “With our own eyes, we have seen conscientious labor, the most solid learning, the most serious discipline and application applied to appalling ends.”