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For a century and a half major improvements in
technology, in the industrial arts, and in material comfort,
as well as most developments in the realms of intellect
and aesthetics, have been yoked to the service of
nationalism. The Industrial Revolution, despite its
cosmopolitan potentialities, has been largely nationalized
in actual fact. Modern scholarship, despite its scientific
claims and its ubiquitous nature, has been
preponderantly enlisted in support of nationalism.
Philosophies which in origin were not expressly nationalist
and were sometimes definitely intended to be anti-
nationalist, philosophies such as Christianity, Liberalism,
Marxism, and the systems of Hegel, Comte, and Nietsche,
have been copiously drawn upon and frequently distorted
for nationalist purposes. The plastic arts, music, and
belles-lettres, despite their universal appeal, have become