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Above all these, and behind all these, there is something greater than these—there is the nation itself.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Above all these, and behind all these, there is something greater than these—there is the nation itself.”
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Morley asserts that the essence of a nation surpasses material considerations.
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