Наша цивилизация – нечто большее, чем противоположность театральным игрищам (см. эпиграф). Черчилль указал на очень важный аспект, когда определил “центральный принцип [западной] цивилизации” как “подчинение господствующего класса древним обычаям народа и его воле, как это выражено в конституции”:

Разве нации не могут соединиться… и установить верховенство права для всеобщей пользы? Конечно, это высокая надежда, которой мы должны вдохновляться… Но не стоит думать, будто одно только… признание верных принципов…

В 1938 году эти “варварские и атавистические силы” были прежде всего внешним врагом. И, как мы увидели, они в той же степени были плодами западной цивилизации, как и те ценности, которыми дорожил Черчилль. Сегодня, как и тогда, главную угрозу Западу несут не другие цивилизации, а наше собственное малодушие и питаемое им историческое невежество.

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