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Nationalism is a state of mind permeating the large majority of the people and claiming to permeate all its members; it recognises the nation-State a… - Hans Kohn
" "Nationalism is a state of mind permeating the large majority of the people and claiming to permeate all its members; it recognises the nation-State as the ideal form of political organization and the nationality as the source of all creative cultural energy and economic well-being. The supreme loyalty of man is therefore due to his nationality, as his own life is supposedly rooted in and made possible by its welfare.
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(September 15, 1891 – March 16, 1971) was a Jewish American philosopher and historian.
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