The two frontiers : $b A study in historical psychology
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"The two frontiers" by John Gould Fletcher is a study in historical psychology and comparative history written in the early 20th century. It explores the parallel rise of Russia and the United States as river-born civilizations, reading history through symbolic lenses of art, religion, geography, and climate to illuminate present choices. Fletcher critiques both complacent progress-worship and nostalgic pessimism, arguing for a myth-informed, value-centered understanding that can direct the future.
The opening of this study argues that history should guide the present rather than serve as antiquarian recovery, and proposes reading civilizations symbolically through their art and religion. It contrasts Egypt (tomb cult, Osiris-Amen-Ra synthesis, totemistic substrata, stable river life) with Babylonia (astral gods, shamanism, law and custom, element-driven climate), then pivots to the sixteenth-century crisis in Europe and two “small” turning points—Columbus’s westward voyage and Sophia
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