Like other love, patriotism not a matter of reasoning, or of abstractions. Nobody ever fell: n love from a purely intellectual conviction of the worthiness of the lady. Nobody loves his infant merely because he approves, on adequate general grounds of parental affection. Like live -f wife and of children, love of country reste on a physical basis; like them, it is called forth by traits that the senses can dwell upon; like them, engendered in the eyes, by gazing fed," it espies' in its object a strain of delicious lerentness from all the potential objects of similar passions in other people. You may call it unreason, or you may call it an access of half-conscious insight into some code of reason more penetrating' than any that we have yet grasped and formulated under that august name. Once at least in his life almost everyone sees, with a certainty which he can neither doubt nor account for, that the one thi supremely worth having in life the good of somebody else.
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