Book IV. The Diversity of European Spiritual Histories

Liberalism, consensus and tolerance allowed the emergence of the West.
The increase of the primitive tribes to a national size, the debilitating diet of the population due to the consumption of only two or three vegetables (carrots, onions, peas) without fish nor meat that was reserved to the elite, the availability of efficient weapons, the ease of organization of the nation with the help of a script, promoted temporal rulers who embody the State and assume absolute power by divine right. The philosophy that underlines this Unity is a relation of dominance of an anointed individual over other individuals and of an anointed nation over nations that are united by submission.
It is consensually assumed that all Christian nations evolving in the West after the crumbling down of Romania were governed by the Christian monism, i.e. an equal respect for spiritual and material matters. Nothing is further from the truth. The destruction of Christendom gave the possibility to different political entities to rise, which took divergent evolving paths. Evolution is predetermined, in that one may not ignore the origins. In this book, I describe the environment in which evolved the various entities that emerged from the ruins of Christendom and demonstrate that Francia, the country that was determinant in the destruction of Christendom, remained true to its heritage and rejected the Christian monism.