Nationality in Modern History - Tapa dura

Cambridge in theM ichaelmas Term of 1915; and Lectures LX and Xare based on those which I delivered hi December last to the Historical Associations at Birmingham and Bristol. My ami throughout has been historical, namely, to study the varied manifestations of Nationality among the chief European peoples, before attempting to analyze or define it. That I have sought to do hi Lecture VIII. It is noteworthy that only in recent tunes hasN ationality become a conscious and definite movement. A part from the writings of Machiavelli, where that instinct figures dimly, it was not (I believe) treated by any writer before the year 1758. Then an anonymous Swiss brought out a book entitled Von dem Nationalstolze (O fN ational Pride), hi which he discussed its good and bad characteristics. I have no space hi which to summarize his work; but at some points it breathes the spirit of Schiller sW ilhelm Tell, the inner meaning of which I have sought to portray hi Lecture ILL I began these studies several years ago, and early in 1916 was about to complete them. Most of my conclusions have not been modified by the present war; but the questions discussed in the later lectures arise out of that conflict. There, as elsewhere, I hope, my treatment has been as objective and impartial as present conditions admit. Lack of space has precluded a study of the lesser national movements hiE urope and of all similar movements outside of Europe. I regret this latter omission because the growth of Nationality hi the United States and theB ritish Commonwealths is developing a wider and cosmopolitan sentiment which makes for peace.
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