mechanization by print and by road led to the acceptance of 
national unity. Let us not forget that nationalism was a mighty 
invention and revolution that, in the Renaissance, wiped out 
many of the local regions and loyalties. It was a revolution 
achieved almost entirely by the speed-up of information by 
means of uniform movable types. Nationalism cut across most 
of the traditional power and cultural groupings that had slowly 
grown up in various regions. Multi-nationalisms had long 
deprived Europe of its economic unity. The Common Market 
came to it only with the Second War. War is accelerated social 
change, as an explosion is an accelerated chemical reaction 
and movement of matter. With electric speeds governing 
industry and social life, explosion in the sense of crash 
development becomes normal. On the other hand, the old-
fashioned kind of “war” becomes as impracticable as playing 
hopscotch with bulldozers. Organic interdependence means