Nationalism... at Modern Fathers 1867 blogger

Rumilly on Nationalism:

(Translation:) "Nationalism is a nuance, or if you wish, a comp­le­ment of pa­tri­ot­ism. The vir­tue of pa­tri­ot­ism is the attach­ment to one’s na­tive soil, to the land of the an­cest­ors. Na­tion­al­ism em­braces rather the moral and spir­i­tu­al her­i­tage; it is sooner the attach­ment to men, our broth­ers, with whom we share this her­i­tage. It is the fam­ily spir­it ex­tend­ed to the na­tion. It is super­flu­ous to show that na­tion­al­ism does not im­ply any hos­til­ity to­wards the other hu­man groups – any more than fam­ily spir­it leads to hat­red of the neigh­bour­ing fam­i­lies. It im­plies only a dis­tinct, pre­ferred love. However, the Left seeks to substitute class con­scious­ness for na­tion­al spir­it. – Robert Rumilly, writing in his L’infiltration Gauchiste Au Canada Français, 1956, pp. 114-115 (The Leftist Infiltration of French Canada).