What Makes A Nation

Fifty millions of people on three millions of square miles of territory do not constitute the United States of Araerica. A million or so of people oeeupying twenty-one thousand square miles did not constitute Greece. It was the Greeks who constituted Greece; it is Americans who constitute America. So many people thrown together on one territory no more make a nation than so many blocks of stone thrown together in a pile make a temple, or so many types in pi a book, or so many threads in a tangle a fabric. Every nation has its own distinguishing features, its own type of character, ita own consciousness, its own life. To constitute a nation there must be not only people and land and laws, but laws that are self-evolved, literatura that is the expression of national life, languag-e fitted to express that life, and theref ore a life to be expressed.- Century. - Wickwire- "You're just too late, Yabsley. Mudge has just finished singing 'Roeked in the Cradle of the Deep.' You missed a treat." Yabsley - "O, he had to treat before you would let him sinjr,