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Nationalism and Darwin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Walter J. Ong S.J.
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The concepts with which man registers the reality around him and with which he does his thinking carry within them the record of their own history. Thus our ordinary ways of conceiving of the world which lies around and ahead of us, the world of the postnationalist age, seem inevitably to perpetuate the concept of nationalism. To get beyond nationalism, we commonly think of internationalism or postnationalism or transnationalism, conceiving of what is not nationalism in terms of nationalism itself. The difficulty here is of course unavoidable, for the next age will have emerged from nationalism, and our concept of it, too, must perpetuate the realities of history.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , October 1960 , pp. 466 - 481
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1960

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References

* This essay was originally prepared for the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion which met at Columbia University, August 31–September 2, 1959.

1 Quoted in Davidson, Marshall, “Whither the Course of Empire,” American Heritage, VIII (10, 1957), 58Google Scholar. Cole's five paintings are also reproduced in this same place, pp. 52–61.

2 For Hobbes' entanglement in metaphor throughout his purportedly nonmetaphorical writing, see May, Louis Francis Jr, “Literary Analysis of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of English, St. Louis University, 1959)Google Scholar.

3 See Gierke, Otto, Natural Law and the Theory of Society, 1500–1800, trans. Barker, Ernest (Cambridge, England, 1950), esp. pp. 252–54, nn. 92–97Google Scholar. The body politic in Roman thought is treated by Wikenhauser, Alfred, Die Kirche als der Mystische Leib Christi nach dem Apostel Paulus (Münster, 1937)Google Scholar, and in mediaeval thought by Kantorowicz, Ernest H., The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton, 1957)Google Scholar.

4 These are here described after Simpson, George Gaylord, The Major Features of Evolution (New York, 1955), p. 379Google Scholar. The diagram is also reproduced and discussed in Smith, John Maynard, The Theory of Evolution (“Pelican Books,” Harmsworth, Middlesex, England, 1958), p. 255Google Scholar.

5 See Harbrecht, Paul P., Pension Funds and Economic Power (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1959)Google Scholar; also the writings of Adolf Berle, especially his forthcoming Power without Property.