Broader confederations among states must be confined by fixed constitutional limitations. Men are foolishly and naively trusted without fixed restraints upon their power. Such fragmentation and specialization leads them further and further away from a thoughtful consideration of first principles and teleological ends. Production, accumulation, and consumption satisfy them temporarily. But since only matter matters, they plunge down the path to hedonism and sensuality searing all moral discrimination.
Passions rule more and more with loss of purpose.
The Classicist of Western European tradition is governed by distinctively Christian metaphysics. Rather, he is committed to first principles, the center. His first task therefore, is to worship the God of Scripture. God is not only there, God has spoken. There is no Western, European tradition without Christian orthodoxy.