The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.


Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922) 'State, visible and invisible'


The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states—Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.