nation-changing - Word in Context

Updated: June 24, 2025

We are dealing with early ages; nation-MAKING is the occupation of man in these ages, and it is war that makes nations. Nation-CHANGING comes afterwards, and is mostly effected by peaceful revolution, though even then war, too, plays its part.
Walter Bagehot - Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society