The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
