The bases of nationalism are the co-existence of a special...

The bases of nationalism are the co-existence of a special group in a particular land, or attachment to a particular race or language; all of which are accidental factors without any connection with the human will. How can an individual belonging to a particular race, color or language liberate himself from these instinctive attachments?

Adopting the 'accident of nature' reasoning as the test and main criterion of man's social and political life will mean degrading his rank and position, whereas his superiority over other living creatures lies in his free will and choice. Nationalism denigrates him to the extent of his confinement to the four walls of his birth-place. Nationalism also negates man&