Sometimes it Is given to children to see things with fresh clarity and to speak startling truths. I have a young Asian friend. a child in her early teens. whose intellect Is like a small bright flame. Her parents want her to become a naturalized British subject. and the other day they asked her what she thought of the proposal. She answered it at once. "I dont believe in nations." She happens to be intensely proud of her racial origin and also to feel a certain admiration for the British. but what she was trying to express was that somehow national loyalties were inadequate. they were not enough In the modern world. in addition to this we must all feel a higher allegiance to the human race as a whole. Her remark was a forthright statement of a profound truth.
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