The whole of Europe east of the Rhine thus fell into the German industrial orbit, and its economic life was adjusted accordingly.
But these internal factors would not have been sufficient to enable the population to support itself without the co-operation of external factors also and of certain general dispositions common to the whole of Europe.

Many of the circumstances already treated were true of Europe as a whole, and were not peculiar to the Central Empires.

But all of what follows was common to the whole European system.
III.

_The Psychology of Society_ Europe was so organized socially and economically as to secure the maximum accumulation of capital.

While there was some continuous improvement in the daily conditions of life of the mass of the population, Society was so framed as to throw a great part of the increased income into the control of the class least likely to consume it.