increasing independence of every definite milieu, that for centuries would fain inscribe itself with equal demands on soul and body, — that is to say, the slow emergence of an essentially SUPER-NATIONAL and nomadic species of man, who possesses, physiologically speaking, a maximum of the art and power of adaptation as his typical distinction.

This process of the EVOLVING EUROPEAN, which can be retarded in its TEMPO by great relapses, but will perhaps just gain and grow thereby in vehemence and depth — the still-raging storm and stress of “national sentiment” pertains to it, and also the anarchism which is appearing at present — this process will probably arrive at results on which its naive propagators and panegyrists, the apostles of “modern ideas,” would least care to reckon.