Wherever its influence subsided, the Nation began to appear; and now, wherever its influence still lingers on earth, there the yearnings for national life, instinctive in the popular heart, are for the time suppressed.
Sumner observes that the decline of feudalism allowed for the emergence of national identity and life.
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