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Industrial Revolution began in a large way in England
about a hundred and forty years ago—at about the time
of the Jacobin Revolution in France—and its
intensification in England and its extension throughout
the world have paralleled the rise and spread of popular
devotion to doctrines of nationalism. The doctrines
themselves were originally crystallized in an agricultural
society, before the advent of the new industrial
machinery, but their acceptance has accompanied, and
their complete triumph has followed, the introduction of
the new machinery and the transition from an agricultural
to an industrial society. It seems to have been a perfectly
natural development. (pp. 232­3)
Since industrialism even the arts, philosophy, and religion
have been patterned by nationalism. Hayes writes (p. 289):