The rivers of Indian thought and philosophy, as well as the life, culture, and literature of India, originate in the dim beginnings of a distant past. At times, they changed their course, sometimes dried up, but they retained their essential identity. This persistence is not necessarily a virtue; it can easily signify stagnation and decline, which...
Sanskrit is an astonishingly rich, thriving, and lushly developed language that remains precise and adheres strictly to the grammatical framework established by Pāṇini over 2,600 years ago. Its wealth has expanded and flourished, yet it has never severed its connection to its original roots. During the declining years of Sanskrit literature, the...
The symbol of the North American Indian is the proud, aquiline-nosed plains rider adorned with a feathered headdress. The Great Plains were home to numerous Native American tribes. However, the Plains lifestyle and culture were among the youngest in America, developing in the 18th century and coming to an end in the last quarter of the 19th...
The birth hour of the modern age is marked by a severe illness of the European humanity: smallpox. This does not mean that the plague was the cause of the modern age, but rather the opposite: the "modern age" existed first, and it was through it that the plague arose. Every era creates its own diseases, just as its art,...
Basically, every era is immoral, and often immorality is nothing more than a higher, freer, and more complex form of morality. However, in the case of the Middle Ages, it can be said that they thoroughly surpassed the normal and lawful limits of immorality, which probably belong to humanity's constant foundations. Symptoms of a moral spasm...
Throughout his reign, Charles V was accompanied by incredible luck: he won battles against both internal and external enemies, including the Spanish and Dutch rebels, popes and heretics, German princes and Tunisian pirates, the French and English, Indians and Turks. Yet, these victories led to nothing of sufficient importance to be considered...