The peacemakers of Vienna had attempted to reconstruct a European community in total disregard of the direction in which the Continent was moving

In fact, the peacemakers of Vienna had attempted to reconstruct a European community in total disregard of  the direction in which the Continent was moving. As a result, their new system excluded not only those, such as the liberals and revolutionaries, whom they saw as enemies: it was so thoroughly out of sympathy with the zeitgeist of the times that it alienated most educated people in Europe.

A. Zamoyski, Rites of Peace (2007), 559