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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