Excerpt from Patriotism: A Biological Study
In this essay I have tried to explain the natural history of patriotism. If the facts I set in order are generally well known, and the conclusions I draw from them fairly obvious, I nevertheless claim that I have made an attempt at scientific investigation of a subject which usually receives purely emotional treatment.
In my examination of the problems of human existence I have frequently had to mention grave evils. When this has happened I have not attempted to discover or suggest a way of remedying them, partly because I feel personally better able to analyze facts than to plan actions; partly because in this particular I have been forestalled by others. The number of people who try to ascertain the facts and discover the causes of social evils without attempting to formulate a scheme to remedy them, is small.
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