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Title: The Psychology of Nations
A Contribution to the Philosophy of History

Author: G.E. Partridge

Release Date: March 14, 2007 [EBook #20814]

Language: English

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
NATIONS

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE
PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

BY

G.E. PARTRIDGE

NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, November, 1919

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PREFACE

This book contains two closely related studies of the consciousness of
nations. It has been written during the closing months of the war and
in the days that have followed, and is completed while the Peace
Conference is still in session, holding in the balance, as many
believe, the fate of many hopes, and perhaps the whole future of the
world. We see focussed there in