The man who believes himself wise is always tempted to ignore or undervalue the foolish brethren.

The man who believes himself good is always tempted actively to dislike the perverse brethren.

The man who insists at any cost upon having his own way is always twisting the brethren into his friends or his enemies.

But the teaching of the national school constantly tends to diminish these causes of disloyalty.

Its tendency is to convert traditional patriotism into a patient devotion to the national ideal, and into a patient loyalty towards one's fellow-countrymen as the visible and inevitable substance through which that ideal is to be expressed.
In the foregoing characteristic of a democratic nation, we reach the decisive difference between a nation which is seeking to be wholly democratic and a nation which is content to be semi-democratic.