Excerpt from Under the English Crown
The prevailing custom of calling the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland simply England shows clearly enough which is considered the dominating element in the Union. Under the English Crown the formerly independent nations of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have now been formed into a single complex monarchy, the predominance of Celtic blood in the three last producing political forms bound by their very nature sooner or later to be superseded.
Happily the spirit of a nation will survive its independence, and after long and painful struggles will stamp its own individuality upon all customs, laws, and institutions. Each of the above-mentioned countries has ceased to be a state - all three have continued to remain nations.
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