ABSTRACT
A nation is a society of men united by common blood and descent . . . speech, religion and manners. A state . . . is a society of men united under one government.
(Salmond, 1907: 103)
Salmond went on to suggest that in every nation there is an impulse to develop into a state. In his fictional story, states grew out of nations. Where a state encompassed cultural differences, it tended to become a nation:
The unity of political organization eliminates in course of time the national diversities within its borders, infusing throughout all its population a new and common nationality, to the exclusion of all remembered relationship with those beyond the limits of the state.
