Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Fallen leaves (№ 289292)

European civilization will perish from compassion. As Greece, from the sophists and Rome - from "parasites" (the hangers-on at the table optimates). The mechanism of destruction of European civilization would be paralyzed against all evil, all rascaldom, all crimes: and in the end times villains will break the world. Note that now crowd, sneered, scornfully insulted all the good, simple, calm, simply virtuous. <...> So, in fact (die), not from compassion, but from lusotropicalism... In some kink that... Civilizations die from the perversion of the main virtues, rod, "destined," in which "all the dough had risen"... In Greece, it was the intelligence in Rome - volo, "dominate", and the Christians call love. "Humanity" (society and literature) and there are ice love...