Is Europe Dying? Notes on a Crisis of Civilizational Morale

George Weigel at History News Network August 15, 2005

When an entire continent, healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before, fails to create the human future in the most elemental sense -- by creating the next generation -- something very serious is afoot. I can think of no better description for that "something" than to call it a crisis of civilizational

morale.