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“America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.” quote by Ernest Gellner — Download Open image

“America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.”

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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have…

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“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this view, is the unfolding of rationality. Human thought, institutions, social organization, become progressively more rational. The idea that Reason is the goal or end-point of the development of mankind can fuse with the view that it also constitutes…

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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

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People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

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Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

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Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

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