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Because a nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but it is an idea of continuity which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke reflects on the concept of a nation as a continuous entity that transcends mere geographical or numerical definitions.
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