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It is this which explains nationalism: the principle — so strange and eccentric in the age of agrarian cultural diversity and the 'ethnic' division of labour — that homogeneity of culture is the political bond, that mastery of (and, one should add, acceptability in) a given high culture... is the precondition of political, economic and social citizenship.

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People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

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