Socialism wants to organise, and not disintegrate, humanity.

But in the organisms of mankind, not individuals, but nations are the tissues, and if the whole organism is to remain healthy it is necessary for the tissues to be healthy....

The peoples, despite the changes they undergo, are everlasting, and they add to their own greatness by helping the world upward.

And so we are at one and the same time good Socialists and good Germans." This might almost seem to be a rhapsody, but every movement of continental politics in recent times confirms and enforces its plain truth.

"The spirit of resurgent nationality," as Professor Bury of Cambridge tells us, "has governed, as one of the most puissant forces, the political course of the last century and is still unexhausted." It has governed not only the West but the East; the twain have met in that demand for a constitutional national State which in our day has flamed up, a fire not to be put out, in Turkey, Persia, Egypt.