Roger Scruton on the origins of anti-nationalism:

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In 1885 these people were common enough to be considered a public nuisance:
“…They never would be missed — they never would be missed!
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;“
No doubt it took a while for them to capture enough educational instutions, publishing houses, and so on.
A knock-on effect of mass-slaughtering the men capable of resisting this kind of thing in two World Wars?
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