May 8, 1936

Oswald Spengler's magnum opus, The Decline of the West, has suffered due to the events in which 20th century Germany participated, but the author was not a Nazi, but rather a scholar seeking to find patterns in world history. Another misperception is that because it was published in the 1920s the two volumes document a German despair at wartime losses. Actually The Decline of the West was practically finished by 1914. Had we not studied Spengler we would still be interested, in view of the fact Karl Popper, a leading positivist ideologue, called Spengler's work "pointless."Scorn from such , as Popper may point to real genius in others.
Spengler (May 29, 1880 to May 8, 1936) lived on a small inheritance and was so poor prior to the publication of his life's research that he could not afford to buy books.
We almost had to leave him out of the almanac. To leave out the man who said, you know you are aging when you have limbs, that is you notice them, would have been particularly sad. But, there is a footnote in volume 2, page 276, mentioning Bastet and cat.