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Bolingbroke, the Englishman, was a pioneer in the
expounding of a formal doctrine of nationalism. It was
natural, therefore, that any Englishman who would enter
the lists against Jacobinism should be arrayed in
trappings of nationalism.
So writes Hayes on page 86 of Historical Evolution of
Modern Nationalism . Similar testimony of English precedence in
national unity comes from a sixteenth century Venetian
ambassador:
In 1557 the Venetian ambassador Giovanni Micheli
wrote to his government: ‘In so far as religion [in England]
is concerned, the example and authority of the sovereign
are all-important. The English esteem and practise their
religion only in so far as thereby they fulfil their duty as