repetitions of the printed page, but of the assembly line. The 
English were much ahead of Europe in nationalism as in 
industrialism, and in typographical organization of the army. 
Cromwell’s Ironsides were in action a hundred and fifty years 
before the Jacobin armies.

          England preceded all countries on the Continent in 
     the development of an acute popular consciousness of 
     common nationality. Long before the French Revolution 
     at a time when Frenchmen had thought of themselves 
     primarily as Burgundians or Gascons or Provençals, 
     Englishmen had been Englishmen and had rallied with real 
     national patriotism to the secularizations of Henry VIII 
     and the exploits of Elizabeth. There had been a nationalist 
     spirit in the political philosophy of Milton and Locke hardly 
     paralleled by their contemporaries on the Continent, and