. Nationality & the war . his function is to merge 500 NATIONALITY AND SOVEREIGNTY himself in the society to which he belongs : the State—that is the political Absolute. For the State there isno law, no vision of a wider society, This dogma may be true or false ; that the future willshow, yet this much we can proclaim at once : If it istrue, then European Civilisation is a failure. The function of Society, says Aristotle, is not tomake life possible, but to make it worth living. Thissaying, at least, applies not only to individuals but tostates. Hitherto the national states of Europe havebeen
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. Nationality & the war . his function is to merge 500 NATIONALITY AND SOVEREIGNTY himself in the society to which he belongs : the State—that is the political Absolute. For the State there isno law, no vision of a wider society, This dogma may be true or false ; that the future willshow, yet this much we can proclaim at once : If it istrue, then European Civilisation is a failure. The function of Society, says Aristotle, is not tomake life possible, but to make it worth living. Thissaying, at least, applies not only to individuals but tostates. Hitherto the national states of Europe havebeen absorbed in the preliminary struggle to securetheir existence. If they can profit by the present crisisto liberate their energy for higher ends, then theKingdom of Heaven is at hand : if inspiration fails themin this hour, then we are witnessing the beginning ofgreat evils for Hellas, and the Sovereign Nations ofEurope are doomed to the same destruction as theSovereign Cities of Greece. VII. The Nationalities of Europe.. ARABIC AND BERBER SPEAKING MOSLEMS L. = LappsG. = GermansB. = Bosnialc Moslemsor Bulgar Xtians T. = Turks or Tatars A. = Armenians R. = Russians K. = Kurds E. = Erse speakers N. = Nestorians Or = Greeks F. = Finns The stipples represent Nationalities. The unstippled spaces represent : (i) Populations withno National consciousness. (ii) Uninhabited districts. N.B.—Blank always implies (ii)unless otherwise stated. Dotted lines represent linguistic boundaries, where these fail tocoincide with National groupings. The figures in red refer to appendix at end of the book. APPENDIX NOTE ON THE MAP OF NATIONALITIESIN EUROPE This map is an attempt to symbolise in visual formthe thesis of the book. It does not chart the physical varieties of the humanrace that occupy this portion of the Earths surface, ^nor even (a mtich simpler task) the domains of thedifferent languages spoken indiscriminately by groupsand individuals of the most diverse racial types withinthe same a