ABSTRACT
These forces are essentially religious and spiritual. They are manifest in every department of the present nationalist activities. A fervent religious spirit breathes through every poem and hymn in which the new nationalist sentiments have found expression during the last five or six years. It has been the inspiration of every nationalist orator who has drawn people in their thousands and tens of thousands, to the nationalist platforms. It has created new symbols-a new form of idolatry, as some perhaps would call it-representing the apotheosis of the geographical habitat of the race. And it is this intensely religious
note which constitutes the reality and the gravity of the present situation.
