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... Europe toward the conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ( see his Art of War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy ...
... Europe toward the conception of more or less absolute princes , with highly organized standing armies ( see his Art of War ) , national religions , and educational auton- omy . Machiavelli , with his aspiration toward a united Italy ...
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... Europe , which reached its fullest develop- ment in the seventeenth , eighteenth , and nineteenth centuries . Before the Renaissance , Europe was far more of a unity than it was at the close of the reign of Queen Victoria , when it ...
... Europe , which reached its fullest develop- ment in the seventeenth , eighteenth , and nineteenth centuries . Before the Renaissance , Europe was far more of a unity than it was at the close of the reign of Queen Victoria , when it ...
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... Europe , as they existed before the Great War , were manifestly bearable burdens , because they were borne . But the outbreak of that struggle forced upon the belligerents , in spite of the natural con- servatism of all professional ...
... Europe , as they existed before the Great War , were manifestly bearable burdens , because they were borne . But the outbreak of that struggle forced upon the belligerents , in spite of the natural con- servatism of all professional ...
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... at its gates . What is likely to happen , then , when the working masses of Central and Western Europe , no longer sustained by the imme- diate excitement of actual war , find themselves still obliged 12 THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
... at its gates . What is likely to happen , then , when the working masses of Central and Western Europe , no longer sustained by the imme- diate excitement of actual war , find themselves still obliged 12 THE IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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... Europe , roughly parallel in its meth- ods to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia , and released by a similar loss of faith in leaders and governments , appears at the end of the vista of waste of directive energy and natural resources ...
... Europe , roughly parallel in its meth- ods to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia , and released by a similar loss of faith in leaders and governments , appears at the end of the vista of waste of directive energy and natural resources ...
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