National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The poetry of a nation, for instanc… - Charles Buxton
" "National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The poetry of a nation, for instance, gains more from the deep roots of national memory and tradition than it loses from the political boundaries which fence it from the air and sun that might come to it across neighbouring gardens. The whole gains by the fuller development of every one of its parts.
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About Charles Buxton
(27 November 1875 – 16 December 1942) was an English philanthropist, author, in 1910 and again in 1922–1923, and campaigner for peace. He also served as president of the Quaker Esperanto Society.
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