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I am quite certain that Ireland is a nation; I am quite certain that nationality is the key to Ireland; I am quite certain that all our failure in Ireland arose from the fact that we would not in spirit treat it as a nation.
And the work itself has been from the first adopted, and appropriated here, as heartily as if it had been an indigenous production, some singularly distinctive product too, of the so deeply characterised English nationality.
That is where the first Frenchman who ever conquered England landed. Hastings yonder! Battle Abbey over there! my name on its Roll. Such a wonderful old Church!" He stopped abruptly. A ship, lying inshore beneath him, tiny on the plain of sea, had caught his eye. He flashed round on the boy. "What nationality?" fiercely, and with pointing finger. Kit knew at a glance.
I am far from wishing to say that nationality or race has no significance in art, but I think that we have been in danger of greatly exaggerating its importance.
“Nationality, English” was added. “What ship was that from which you landed?” There was no reason why the question should not be answered, and he replied: “The Tartar, thirty-four guns.”
Blake and Joe, while they found the Spaniard very pleasant, could not truthfully say that they felt for him the comradeship they might have manifested toward one of their own nationality. He was polite and considerate toward them almost too polite at times, but that came natural to him, perhaps. He was a little older than Joe and Blake, but he did not take advantage of that.
I was so thoroughly ashamed of my countryman, and so afraid of my nationality being discovered, that, if any one spoke to me, I adopted every Americanism which I could think of in reply. The country within fifty miles of Detroit is a pretty alternation of prairie, wood, corn- fields, peach and apple orchards.
Not only is even the slightest trace of nationality effaced, but the merging of the old conditions of life into the new seems of too little consequence to merit even an allusion. This state of affairs, as said above, is caused by the annihilation, by the despotic power of the central government, of that middle class which in times of prosperity formed the sinews of the state.
For example, there is a German nation, ruled by the Kaiser Wilhelm II., but this does not include twelve million people of German nationality who are the subjects of the Emperor of Austria; or again, there is the Swiss nation, which is made up of no less than three distinct nationalities.
And how wonderfully this passage agrees with that remark in the Kurral: The common people look like men but I have never seen anything quite like them. If the reader will consider the extent to which these ideas agree in thought and even in expression, and in the wide difference between them in point of date and nationality, he cannot doubt but that they are at one with the facts of life.
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