Divine right of kings, providential pre-eminence of dynasties, balance of power, sovereign independence of the papacy,—these and the other accredited catchwords of history were giving place to the vague, indefinable, shifting, but most potent and inspiring doctrine of Nationality.
Morley discusses the shift from traditional political doctrines to the concept of nationality as a driving force in history.
Share
More from John Morley
Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…
Other voices in this conversation
