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Entry: An Inconvenient Miracle Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/an_inconvenient_miracle#17264 Post contents: Mr. Smith, if he reads much of this site, knows that my heart is with the small statelette, the polis, not the centralized "Nation" of the Whigs, assorted Nationalists, and the Jacobins; nor is it really with empire. Still, his facts are wrong in two ways. 1. The Austrian Empire was held together by i. the most prestigious royal house in Europe ii. a common religion -- the Catholic Faith and (during the 19th C) toleration for Jews iii a common culture with related folkways iv. common enemies. During World War I, there was really no ethnic rebellion against the Empire, except in Bosnia. The British, on the other hand, and an ethnic rebellion in Ireland, the Turks in Palestine and Arabia. And we know what happened in the Tsar's empire. 2. These factors (i-iv) did not cause the Six Weeks War or World War I. Nationalism did. In general, anti-Royalism, Nationalism, Judeophobia, and secularization have been scourges. Sent at: 2008 07 24