Europes Fateful Hour

itical institutions and doctrines, the organization of armies, the law, the art, the literature, the philosophy which today form the basis of European-American civilization, are, taken as a whole, the work of those nations which one can, from their position, describe as Mediterranean. Far less numerous, although more recent, are the contributions of the peoples which have not had the privilege of being able to bathe themselved in the sacred waters of that historic sea. Their enumeration is not a long one. There is the Reformation Lutherism, so different from Calvinism; that is to say, from the Reformation conceived in Latin countries: there is the great industrialism which makes use of the motor force of steam and of iron machinery, created by England: there is the parliamentarism, which is also an English creation: there is the English and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: and, in literature, romanticism. To this we must add, to the score of the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples, some literary, aesthetic and juridical contributions of varying worth in the lines traced by the Greco-Latin genius, and the creation of modern science, at which the English and Germans have worked together with the French and the Italians. Modern science has been created by a common effort of the peoples of Europe, and it would be difficult to compare each nation's merit. Creation and application are two distinct things. The Mediterranean peoples have c...