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 as the Swiss Cantons, the clans of Scotland and the new-wholly new-States such as Roumanian Wallachia.

Recognizing the part played by Latin-America in the revolutionary movements towards 1820, demonstrating the strict relationship between these all movements, I have been unable to pass over the often leading role of the SouthEast in the formation of contemporary Europe. After the dynastic states, I have presented the national — or, better said, ethnographical — states which have emerged triumphant from the melting-pot of the Great War. But at the same time I must indicate the economic movement, preparing, as it undoubtedly is, yet another new grouping of the nations of the world: the world-wide competition between territorial and national products, characterising the new era, the leading moral ideas of which have yet to breast the horizon.