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  • Ernest Renan on the Concept of Nation: The Nation becomes tied to Race

    Ernest Renan on the Concept of Nation: The Nation becomes tied to Race

    ERNEST RENAN DETAILS IN 1882 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF NATION AND NATION TIED TO RACE AS A CONFUSION “Since the fall of the Roman Empire or, rather, since the disintegration of Charlemagne’s empire, western Europe has seemed to us to be divided into nations, some of which, in certain epochs, have sought to…