THE DESIBE FOR FREEDOM

concentric circles of successively increasing areas ; the coimnon dymxmc centre may be defined as the désire for freedom. It is the secret which fies behind and within ail world-poHtical movexnents. This is true aUke of the nationaUstic tendencies in the smaller, weaker, socalled inferior races, and oi the aggressive, expansive policies of the dominant nations. The significance of Nationalism is self-expression ; the tenacity, stubbomness, imquenchableness of the spirit of Nationalism is not to be interpreted in terms of vulgar pride or of an over-estimated self-importance on the part of a people, but rather in terms of the indomitable urgency of a fundamental racef act — the beginning and the end of each and every race — original, peculiar, necessary, etemal, whose fullest expression is required for the perfection of the world-economy. In similar terms, and not as mère greed and lust for empire, or the fascination of poUtical intrigue, or the économie demand for an outlet for population, must we interpret the poUdes of aggression, conquest, imperiaUsm, which characterize the movements of the greater (for the time being) nations in the world.

Not otherwise, or less so, is the case with the community itself regarded f rom within ; it seems as if nothing could speak peace to its stormy waves ; génération after génération, with altemating fortunes but with no real intermission, there proceeds the struggle of Order with Progress, Establishment with Anarchy, Tradition with