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that result in all nations from the unresisted power 

 of some one central force. Rome soon died of decay, 

 in almost the same way that the patriarchal nations 

 of the East have died under the influence of despot- 

 ism. 



The fall of Rome left Europe filled with numerous, 

 disjointed peoples, wholly lacking in cohesion. The 

 North was filled with the tribes of the Goths, the 

 Franks, the Angles, the Danes, the Germans, and 

 hosts of others, divided into an indefinite number of 

 isolated bands, each band warring for itself, and 

 owing no allegiance to any central authority. They 

 comprised a miscellaneous mass of tribes, with no 

 centralizing force except an occasional brilliant 

 leader. For some centuries following, this condition 

 of chaos existed throughout most of Europe. There 

 was a kaleidoscopic series of unions and disintegra- 

 tions, presenting at one time a strong combination, 

 and perhaps in the next century isolated fragments 

 of broken combinations. Slowly out of this chaos 

 can be seen in the later centuries the emergence of 

 the nations that have come to occupy modern Europe. 

 The history of the growth of these nations shows 

 wide variations, but there is one general principle 

 which is concerned in them all. In every case there 

 has been either slowly or rapidly developed a central- 

 ized organization, controlled by some centralizing 

 force. In some countries this centralization has been 

 fairly early ; in others it has remained for later cen- 

 turies to bring it about, and in some instances the 

 final centralization has occurred only within the last 

 few decades. The central authority around which 

 the organizations have developed has been quite 

 varied in the different races. In some cases it has 



