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A EUROPE LOST

"November 1918 did not mark a radical break with the past." This
may be true in an anthropological sense, but his work is a history
of a government that ruled a certain territory, and both governments and their territories radically changed in 1918.

T

he Holy Roman Empire, Wilson says, "was neither a bucolic,
harmonious old-worldly utopia, nor a direct blueprint for
the European Union." If not a blueprint, it was-and I believe,
remains-an inspiration. Charles de Gaulle characterized FrancoGerman cooperation in 1950 as "picking up Charlemagne's
project, this time on modern economic, social, strategic and cultural grounds," and the last Habsburg heir, Otto von Habsburg,
asserted in 1976 that "the imperial idea will rise again in the form
of European unity."
European unity has indeed risen from the dead but, like Frankenstein's monster, it remains only half-alive because Europe's
elites disavow the kinds of ideals, principles, or beliefs that have
always held together our political communities. Most everyone
is hostile to dynasties, kings, and emperors. Unlike the masses,
however, European elites are also hostile to other value systems
that have long held Europe together, namely, Christianity, nationalism, and democracy.
Both Catholicism and Protestantism, along with an important
Jewish element, were essential public supports of both the Holy
Roman Empire and the Habsburg Empire. Indeed, since at least
AD 800, this thing we call "Europe" has been largely a by-product
of Judeo-Christian civilization. Its more recent love affair with
nationalism has offered a substitute value system, but since both
religion and nationalism are now deemed retrograde, one can
only wonder what value system will unify Europe now. What
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