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Spengler rejected traditional unilinear accounts of historical development and also causal explanations. Instead he examined history within the framework of cyclic patterns. "Each culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay and never return." <b>Augustine saw in the City of God a divine plan behind history, and for Marx the driving force behind historical development was the class struggle.</b> In Spengler's garden of cultures there is no gardener, a visible purpose or unifying meaning, except fate, which cannot be explained. Cultures spring mysteriously into being, they have morphological similarities but nothing else.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Spengler rejected traditional unilinear accounts of historical development and also causal explanations. Instead he examined history within the framework of cyclic patterns. "Each culture has its own new possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay and never return." <b>Augustine saw in the City of God a divine plan behind history, and for Marx the driving force behind historical development was the class struggle.</b> In Spengler's garden of cultures there is no gardener, a visible purpose or unifying meaning, except fate, which cannot be explained. Cultures spring mysteriously into being, they have morphological similarities but nothing else.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->