Patriotism and the Super-stateSwarthmore Press Limited, 1920 - 105 pages |
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Page 61 - This is merely saying that the question of government ought to be decided by the governed. One hardly knows what any division of the human race should be free to do if not to determine with which of the various collective
Page 74 - after the fashion which prevails in this part of the world. Here they cut off the Hellenes as one species, and all the other species of mankind, which are innumerable and have no ties or common language, they include under the single name of barbarians ; and because they have one name they are supposed to
Page 15 - Not live, while English songs are sung Wherever blows the wind, And England's laws and England's tongue Enfranchise half mankind ! So long as flashes English steel And English trumpets shrill, He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
Page 62 - whatever really tends to the admixture of nationalities, and the blending of their attributes and peculiarities in a common union, is a benefit to the human race.
Page 20 - born of thee ? Wider still and wider, shall thy bounds be set, God, Who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet. —AC BENSON.
Page 11 - Not she, the England I behold, My mistress is, nor yet The England beautiful of old. Whom Englishmen forget. The England of my heart is she. Long hoped and long deferred. That ever promises to be, And ever breaks her word.
Page 53 - article by article, line by line, according to the accumulated experience of the generations that have preceded us, and according to the extension and increased intensity of association among races, peoples and individuals." " No man, no people, and no age may pretend to have discovered the whole of the law.
Page 74 - Some wise and understanding creature, such as a crane is reputed to be, might in imitation of you make a similar division, and set up cranes against all other animals, to their own
Page 60 - Every great Empire is obliged, in the interest of its imperial unity, and in the interest of the public order of the world, to impose an inflexible veto on popular movements in the direction of disintegration, however much it may endeavour to meet local wishes by varying laws and institutions and compromises.
Page 69 - means, of course, a policy of national selfishness and aggrandisement, a " sacred egoism," made sacred, presumably, by the sentiment of nationality. Internally its effort is to strengthen and tighten the national bond by every means in its power ; externally to make the nation feared or " respected