In a recently discovered document, Northrop Frye reflects on the metaphors of rise and decline in the philosophies of history of St. Augustine, Edward Gibbon, Oswald Spengler, and Arnold Toynbee, and he raises the possibility of their being a Christian philosophy of history.
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