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England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on_ the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men_ who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product.
G.K. Chesterton
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England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on_ the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men_ who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product.

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