ISBN: 9780217517003

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE H VIVE LA NATION "La nation, c'est vous; la loi, c'est encore vous, c'est votre volonte; le roi, c'est le gardien de la loi."-Adresse de I'Assemble nationale au Peuple franfais, Feb. n, 1790. In the last lecture we found reasons for regarding Dante, Chaucer, and Jeanne d'Arc as the first exponents of the national ideal for their several peoples. But it is very doubtful whether that ideal was visible to the people at large, except in the chief crises of war. At such a tune every man and woman who could think felt deep hatred of the foreign invader; and in this sense of repulsion for the foreigner nationalism of the cruder sort doubtless had its rise. Idealized though it might be by the loftier minds, yet in its lower forms it was little more than dislike of the aggressive stranger. This feeling it was which ranged French and English against one another in almost solid phalanxes. But the cross currents, which we have noticed as confusing the issues in mediaeval Germany and Italy, soon began to sweep across England and France. Both lands fell a prey to civil strifes which nearly effaced the nascent sense of unity. England, whose polity had far excelled that of other peoples, was soon distracted by religious and constitutional disputes lasting through most of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In that period the Elizabethan Era stands out as a smiling oasis; for then, during a brief space, England was almost one at heart; and the Spanish menace united Englishmen of all creeds in defence of their homes and liberties. That danger past, the island realm was again rent by schismswhich the follies and perversity of the Stuarts prolonged until the Settlement of 168f Consequently, English patriotism did not fully emerge until the times of Marlborough and the two Books History~~General Nationality-In-Modern-History~~John-Holland-Rose General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macmillan Company in 1916 in 234 pages; Subjects: Nationalism; Europe; History / Europe / General; Political Science / Civics & Citizenship;<

ISBN: 9780217517003

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... view of the urgency of their universal interests; in place of the class feeling, which had weakened Prussia, there must arise a national feeling, based on the perception of kindred aims and duties. Selfishness (said he) is self-destructive; for, when it has run its full course, no firm foundation is left. That vice had ruined Germany. How must she be reconstructed? Fichte''s answer is not altogether clear. It does not sound forth with the trumpet tones of conviction by which Mazzini thrilled Italy in the thirties. The German philosopher had not the abounding faith and enthusiasm of the Italian prophet. Further, he was hampered by the endeavor to express everything in abstract terms, while Mazzini spoke straight to the heart of the people. The cloudiness of Fichte''s views also resulted from his being a pioneer of thought in this direction-- witness his definition of a nation (Lecture VI)--A nation is the whole community of persons living in social intercourse, ever propagating itself in a natural manner, and existing collectively under a certain special law of the development of the divine out of it. This nebulous circumlocution in no sense advances our knowledge of the subject; and it must be confessed that the Addresses are often both dull and confused. Especially tiresome are Lectures IV-VII, which demonstrate the Germanic nature of the Germans with an iteration that seems wholly needless to-day, however much it was needful then to awaken their dormant national sentiment. After these digressions Fichte''s narrative straightens and broadens. Very effective is the reference to the ancient Germans, who refused to face the possibility of being Romanized and were resolved at all costs to order their lives in their own way. Coming to the present he lifts the ... John Holland Rose, Books, History, Nationality in Modern History Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 0217517005

ISBN: 0217517005