ABSTRACT
The great majority of any nation feels that pull of the memories of childhood, combined with that of the familiar daily facts, most intensely when a disturbance of normal life makes people conscious of their need of the familiar. Sometimes, the feeling of patriotism has reference to a small group of persons or a small area of hill and valley. The traditional language, the current customs, become part of one's self; and so do the persons whose life in common with us is the sole reason for language and custom. The patriotism of small nations is often less primitive than that of great nations. People of a small nation expect their status to depend upon their service to others. The patriotism of service is peculiarly the patriotism of Labour. Labour is sometimes said to be unpatriotic. Indignation against the oppressors in own land, is unreconcilable with the older and more primitive forms of patriotism.
