ABSTRACT
THE modern renaissance of nationalism has come upon the world with a half-empty Pantheon. The nation of the past had its mountain passes, its wide seas or rivers, its distinctive modes of eating, recreating, thinking, or drinking, which were at once the symbols and the realities of national distinctiveness and distinction. To-day the aeroplane makes the geographical barrier-gods ridiculous, as rationalized production makes smart little ladies and gentlemen of us all entering the internationalized cinema, our stomachs more or less replete with internationalized food. Thus ethnology, a science long without general appeal, comes into its popular own and “race” arises to do the service to nationality once performed by the geographical and habitual distinctions of earlier mention.
