This feeling of nationality may have been generated by various causes. Sometimes it is the effect of identity of race and descent. Community of language, and community of religion, greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. Considerations on Representative Government - Page 287by John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
| American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...and community of religion greatly contribute to it ; geographical limits are one of its causes ; but the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents...— connected with the same incidents in the past. The only point to be noted further in reference to the foregoing federal unions, is that the same feeling... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1861 - 376 pages
...and community of religion, greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents;...incidents in the past. None of these circumstances however are either indispensable, or necessjirily sufficient by themselves. Switzerland has a strong sentiment... | |
| Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...Representative Government, p. 308), in remarking on the causes of a feeling of nationality, says, " The strongest of all is identity of political antecedents,...history, and consequent community of recollections. nations and fragments of nations, the ultima ratio regum, — the tribunal of force, f The judgment... | |
| Alexander Bain - Education - 1879 - 500 pages
...and community of religion, greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents...in the past. None of these circumstances, however, are either indispensable, or necessarily sufficient by themselves.' For handling a discussion of this... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1882 - 230 pages
...and community of religion, greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents...in the past. None of these circumstances, however, are either indispensable, or necessarily sufficient by themselves. Switzerland has a strong sentiment... | |
| James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - Home rule - 1887 - 424 pages
...antecedents : the possession of a national history and consequent community of recollections—collective pride and humiliation, pleasure and regret— connected with the same incidents in the past. The only point to be noted further in reference to the foregoing federal unions, is that the same feeling... | |
| Alexander Bain - Education - 1898 - 494 pages
...and community of religion, greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents ; the possession of a national history, anil consequent community of recollections ; collective pride and humiliation, pleasure and regret,... | |
| Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman - Cities and towns - 1901 - 450 pages
...and community of religion greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of the causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents,...and regret, connected with the same incidents in the past."1 Are not these words an exact description of the inhabitants of the Dutch States ? Another blunder... | |
| John Atkinson Hobson - Great Britain - 1902 - 424 pages
...and community of religion greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of the causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents,...regret, connected with the same incidents in the past." l It is a debasement of this genuine nationalism, by attempts to overflow its natural banks and absorb... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1887 - 926 pages
...and community of religion greatly contribute to it ; geographical limits are one of its causes ; but the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents...— connected with the same incidents in the past. The only point to be noted further in reference to the foregoing federal unions, is that the same feeling... | |
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