The historical sense (or the capacity for divining quickly the order of rank of the valuations according to which a people, a community, or an individual has lived, the divining instinct for the relationships of these valuations, for the relation of the authority of the valuations to the authority of the operating forces), this historical sense, which we Europeans claim as our specialty, has come to us in the train of the enchanting and mad semi barbarity into which Europe has been plunged by the democratic mingling of classes and races