de-
mocratization. A natural
substitute for democracy
was nationalism, "that won-
drous 'political good' which
is never scarce and which
bestows psychic equality on
rich and poor, on masters

and servants alike." Fur-A U.S. cartoonist found the reunification of Germany a laughing
thermore, historical cir- matter. Few Europeans take the prospective marriage so lightly.

cumstances encouraged ex- treme nationalism.~he Second Reich (187 1-1 919) was a latecomer to the Great Powers an...