Darkness and the Light

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Olaf Stapledon. Darkness and the Light

Darkness and the Light

Table of Contents

PREFACE

Part I - CRISIS

1 - MAN'S TWO FUTURES

2 - THE MODERN AGE

3 - MANKIND AT THE CROSS ROADS

i. RISE AND FALL OF A GERMAN REICH

ii. NORTH AMERICA

iii. RUSSIA AND CHINA

iv. THE RISE OF TIBET

Part II - DARKNESS

4 - THE QUENCHING OF THE LIGHT

i. REPERCUSSIONS IN BRITAIN

ii. A SYNTHETIC FAITH

iii. THE TIBETANS DEFEND THEMSELVES

iv. THE DESTRUCTION OF TIBET

5 - THE REIGN OF DARKNESS

i. THE JAPANESE REVOLUTION

ii. A SYNTHETIC WAR

iii. DIABOLIC WORLD EMPIRE

6 - THE TRIUMPH OF THE RATS

i. ECONOMIC DECLINE

ii. DECLINE OF POPULATION

iii. DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD EMPIRE

iv. FINAL DEGENERACY

v. THE END OF MAN

Part III - THE LIGHT

7 - THE SPARK SURVIVES

i. HARKING BACK TO THE TIBETAN REVOLUTION

ii. WAR AGAINST THE EMPIRES

iii. ARMED PEACE

iv. WAR AGAIN, AND A NEW ORDER

8 - PRECARIOUS ADVANCE

i. DIFFICULTIES OVER AMERICA

ii. DIFFICULTIES WITH THE BUREAUCRATS

iii. PROGRESS

iv. THE POPULATION PROBLEM

v. ARISTOCRATS AND DEMOCRATS

9 - NEW WORLD

i. A WORLD OF VILLAGES

ii. VILLAGE CULTURE

iii. THE FORWARDS

10 - REMOTE HORIZONS

i. PEACEFUL GROWTH

ii. BEHIND THE VEIL

iii. A PHASE OF CONFUSION

iv. PREPARATION FOR A GREAT TASK

v. DESPAIR AND NEW HOPE

vi. MAN PASSES ON

THE END

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Olaf Stapledon

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Thus it was that the movement which had seemed to promise a regeneration of Russia succeeded only in creating an under-current of more lucid feeling and action. The power of the dictatorship remained intact and harsh; and was able, moreover, to inspire the majority, and particularly the young, with superb energy and devotion in the spreading of the Marxian ideals which the regime still claimed to embody, but had in fact sadly perverted.

I shall not pause to recount all the wars and social tumults of this age. I could not, if I would, give a clear report on them. I can remember only that waves of fruitless agony spread hither and thither over the whole planet like seismic waves in the planet's crust. Fruitless the agony seemed to me because time after time hope was disappointed. The door to a new world was thrust ajar, then slammed.

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