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increasingly the product or the pride of national patriots.
So much is nationalism a commonplace in the modes of
thought and action of the civilized populations of the
contemporary world that most men take nationalism for
granted. Without serious reflection they imagine it to be
the most natural thing in the universe and assume that it
must always have existed.
What has given such a vogue to nationalism in
recent times? That is the first major question to be raised
concerning this most vital phenomenon.
The citizen armies of Cromwell and Napoleon were the ideal
manifestations of the new technology.
* As an historian Hayes knows well (p. 290) that there is
a mystery about nationalism. It never existed before the