The Nation and the Imagination

Abstract

In an essay which is to focus on what is international, early attention will surely be expected to the nature of the nation and of the state—even though, in books which are readily available, much discussion on such matters may already be found. Not all of this has proceeded from the standpoint to be reflected here. And the reader may presently care to consider just why this has been so. Was it because, while it was sometimes with words, and sometimes with ideas, elsewhere it was with realities that a writer will have been mainly concerned?