It is true that nationality is born of a common historic tradition, of achievement and suffering mutually shared; it is true, also, that language and race, and even a common political allegiance, have played their part in its formation.
Laski acknowledges the complex historical and cultural factors that contribute to the formation of nationality.
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But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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