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Bui Ihc tendency, though painfully slow, is sure, which endows men with the wider vision; and then these local strifes of Irish and linglish, \'enetians and Genoese, Lombards and Tuscans, seem absurd. They die of themselves because men have gained th<- bnjadcr \iew, and use these local senti- ments as means of attaining to a higher Ie\el than would ' Mazzini, Duties nj Man (I:. VLTyinau edit. J, ch. 5.
92 LECTURES ON NATIONALITY be possible if they sought to reach it by a single bound. The cosmopolitan, who sneers at his country and raves about Humanity, is like a man who disdains the use of stairs and seeks to leap to the first floor. Such efforts have always failed. To ignore the tremendous force of nationality, and grasp at a vague cosmopolitanism by means of groups and unions, is to bridge the torrent by gossamer, as recent events have shown. No ! The true line of advance is, not to sneer at nationality and decry patriotism, but to try to utilize those elemental forces by imparting to them a true aim, instead of the false aim which has deluged Europe with blood.
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