ABSTRACT
The nationalist struggle of our time, like any other historical movement, has had its peaks of activity and its plateaus of inaction, its advances and its setbacks, its different stages of development. The nationalist movement has found itself impotent to effect changes in national policy. The emotional nationalist, though he means well, weakens the movement, for his uncertain grasp of the issues may sometimes lead him unwittingly to take a basically anti-nationalist position. As a movement of protest and dissent, the nationalist struggle emphasizes its social content. Practice will commit the nationalist advocates of social change more deeply to nationalist purpose and to the historicity of change. Ethical behaviour must be consistent with commitment; otherwise there will be a contradiction between purpose and practice which may lead to a vitiation of purpose by practice. The difference between the ethics of the present order and the desired order may easily be seen in the concept of friendship.
