Roumania's Cause and Ideals (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Roumania's Cause and IdealsThere is so little known in this country of Roumania, or, generally, of the East of Europe, that a Short account of the real factors that have brought Roumania into the war is justified at the present time, even though the inevitable lack of authentic and irrefragable historical evidence renders any such preliminary essay nothing more than a provisional attempt at truth. In any case, the lapse of time before authoritative history is issued has always been very long.The first broad principle is that the Western nations have been screened by the Eastern Russia, Poland, Austria, and the Balkans - from experiencing the devastating brunt of the Asiatic invasions of the Middle Ages. The fury of these assaults ravaged those countries and set the clock of early civilization back for many centuries. The West, Sheltered behind this advance guard, pros pered in comparative security.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.