It will be said that they exist, that they have never ceased to be formulated over and over again since the early nineteenth century; it will be said that lderlin, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Marx all felt this certainty that in them a thought and perhaps a culture were coming to a close, and that from the depths of a distance, which was perhaps not invincible, another was approaching in the dim light of dawn, in the brilliance of noon, or in the dissension of the falling day.