Everything that our present-day psychologist has to tell us—and here we refer not only to the systematic science but also in the wider sense to the physiognomic knowledge of men—relates to the present condition of the Western soul, and not, as hitherto gratuitously assumed, to the human soul at large.
C. Atkinson, trans., Volume 1, p. 303 - The Decline of the West (1918, 1923)