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They will hobnob with the Hapsburgs. They will enter racing bets in the jewelled notebooks of grand dukes. They copy the luxuries, the inborn vices of the blue blood of Europe's crowned Sardanapalian autocrats.
A string of unilateral dictates by the French-German duo to the rest of the EU regarding farm subsidies and Europe's constitution, for instance made EU veterans and newcomers alike edgy. Hence the deliberate public snub.
Sir, I am about to bid an affectionate farewell to Cincinnati, and through Cincinnati to the commonwealth of Ohio that bright morning star of consolation and of hope risen from the West over the gloomy horizon of Hungary's and of Europe's dark night!
This Southern life was carried on in the most appropriate environment. On a landed estate, often larger than many of Europe's baronies, stood the great house of the planter, usually a graceful example of colonial architecture, surrounded by stately gardens.
Moreover, their aspirations were, as we have seen, more reactionary than experimental; for the rights for which they conspired had been in a great measure enjoyed under Europe's modern conqueror, then impotent in action, but most efficient in remembrance, although isolated on his prison-rock.
The spirit of any civilisation is inspired by its religion, but the spirit of modern Europe was not inspired by Europe's religion at all. A terrific effort was made in many quarters to liberate Europe from the spirit of her religion. The effort-makers forgot one thing, i.e. that no civilisation ever was liberated from religion and still lived.
The atmosphere was thick with the smoke from cigars and cigarettes, and through the veneering amenities of much courtesy the gentlemen of Europe's Cabinets Noirs wrangled with insistence. Finally Monsieur Jusseret took the floor, and the others dropped respectfully into an attitude of listening. "It is hardly necessary," he began, "to discuss what has been done in Galavia.
If the electric telegraph had been known in those days, all the lives lost in that fearful fight might have been saved. But that would have been a small matter to Napoleon. The war was ended. That long, weary war so wanton, so unnecessary, save for Europe's liberty, and England's existence that had left its trail of blood almost everywhere, and desolated so many thousands of homes, was ended.
At length in 1850, at the age of eighty, he too closed his eyes, and went "From sunshine to the sunless land." "But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? Others will teach us how to dare, And against fear our breast to steel; Others will strengthen us to bear But who, ah! who, will make us feel?"* *Arnold. Poems of Wordsworth, selected by C. L. Thomson.
Liberty should not be either American or European, it should be just liberty. God is God. He is neither America's God nor Europe's God; he is God. So should liberty be. 'American liberty' has much the sound as if you would say 'American privilege. And there is the rub.
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