THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
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Internationalism, which is so popular with intellectual idiots, is really a form of materialism. It is an attempt In deny the bonds which attach one invisibly tu olio's own country; it is an effort to pretend that no country has an individual personality, and that the name of your land conjures up no particular emotion. And that is one of the reasons why internationalism will soon run its cninse. For it entirely fails to perceive that the inlluenees which deeply sway humanity are not, in the ordinarv sense, logical at all. A man can no more explain why he is in love with a particular girl than In* can explain wliv In* is prepared In die for his own country. Such emotions lie deeper than the power of words to describe, and all the diatribes of the Third Internationale will not have the faintest real influence on the ordinary titan’s inborn patriotism.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1924, Page 2
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159THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1924, Page 2
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