In addition to German philosophy, this essay deals with the ancient Thracians, who roamed modern-day Romania.  Spengler's work influenced leading Legionary intellectual and fallen Nationalist Spanish Civil War hero Vasile Marin.  This text is available as a book in Kindle and paperback versions. Faust Without Mephistopheles The Historical Background of Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of Science [Expanded Edition] By Amory Stern   ©   2019, Amory Stern San Diego, CA                Faust Without Mephistopheles     Growth and Death          Oswald Spengler’s writings on the subject of the philosophy of science are very controversial, not only among his detractors but even for his admirers.  What is little understood is that his views on these matters did not exist in a vacuum.  Rather, Spengler’s arguments on the sciences articulate a long German tradition of rejecting English science, a tradition that originated in the eighteenth century.  Luke Hodgkin notes:   “It is today r