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     the older comprehensive Empire, as “nations” or “national
     states”, and popular loyalty to their sovereigns has
     sometimes been described as “nationalism”. But it must
     rigidly be borne in mind that they were not “nations” in
     the primitive tribal sense and that their “nationalism” had
     other foundation than that of present-day nationalism.
     The European “nations” of the sixteenth century were
     more akin to small empires than to large tribes.

     Hayes is mystified by the peculiar character of modern
internationalism which began with the primitivistic obsession of
the eighteenth century: “Modern nationalism signifies a more or
less purposeful effort to revive primitive tribalism on an
enlarged and more artificial scale.” (p. 12) But since the
telegraph and radio, the globe has contracted, spatially, into a
single large village. Tribalism is our only resource since the