at the heart of this bifurcation into secular and ecclesiastical revolutions is a major and recurring idea in rosenstock-huessy's work: that the great war (and after its outbreak he included the second world war) is a "marriage of war and revolution". that is, he saw that the great revolutions had created a 'circulatory spirit' forming the collective aspirations that had driven the european nations and their colonies to fight for one final peace which would lead to what he called a 'metanomical society,' a society in which there could exist a concordance of discordances, a peace in which differences could be not only be tolerated, but provide fecund tensions, as the fruits of all this struggle could be harvested. the european union, for all its flaws, provides the kind of institutional resolution, which "out of revolution" was seeking.