Antoni Lange

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Antoni Lange (1863-1928) was a Polish poet, philosopher, writer, novelist, science-writer, reporter and translator.

He translated English, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Indian, American, Egyptian and Oriental writers into Polish. He was also one of the most original poets of Young Poland.

In his cosmogony-philosophy, he announced that evolution of the soul is parallel to evolution of a nation. Capitalism is the enemy of this principle because it acts against individualism, so capitalism is the ideology of the anonymous crowd. If there is no individualism among the people, then there is also not a problem of "bad" versus "good". Then the world comes to disturb its own logic. According to Lange, a world that 'was borning' from ideal space, is still coming to the highest stage of evolution; sometime, it will return to its primary stage. Every step to evolution is a step to the ideal primary. An exception of this "rule of time-line" is the person of genius, who is between the times.

Lange was interested in spiritualism and parapsychology to contain his own philosophy.

Antoni Lange was a friend of Stephane Mallarme.