aracter. The consciousness of its existence is developed
slowly, and it is long before the sentiment of Nationality--the true
foundation of patriotism--gains force over the hearts and convictions of
a people. But this sentiment, when it has once taken root, is one of the
_most powerful_ of those by which human conduct is affected. It is a
sentiment of the highest order, lifting men out of narrow and selfish
individualism into a region where they behold their duties as members
one of another, as partakers of the general life of humanity--the
inheritors of the past, the trustees of the future.'

'What is planetary humanity?' says Krasinski. 'It is the entirety and
unity of all the powers and capacities of the human spirit expressed
visibly on the earth through harmony and concord, the love of its
members, that is of the various nationalities. As all the members of the
human body are the visible and various parts of the invisible human I,
which connects and rules them all, so the visible nationalities must in
their variety and harmonious unity become in some future time the living
members of a universal humanity. The world knows to-day to what point
its history is tending: it knows it is governed by the wisdom of God,
and that its end is the Humanity, the entire universality brought into
perfect accord with the will of God, knowing and executing the laws
given it by God. But the means to this end, the instruments, the living
members, are the _Nationalities_, in which all the varieties of the
human race have their fairest bloom, their most precious flower. What
the tones are in the musical chord they are in humanity, eternal variety
in eternal harmony and concord. It is impossible to conceive Humanity
without them; it would then be unity without variety, consequently no
_proper unity_ at all, a mere lifeness _oneness_. States are of human
creation, an aggregative collection of small parts; but nationalities
are made by God alone, and therefore not states without nationalities,
but states forming nationalities, belong to the coming union of
universal humanity, and pass into the Christian order. States have risen
before this to destroy a nationality, dividing and quartering it for the
profit of some selfish ideal, tearing asunder a living, palpitating
organism, murdering a visible member of the Universal Humanity. He is
but a child who calls this merely a political crime: it is a crime of
the very deepest dye, a crime against