Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II NATIONALISM The origin and nature of the State has been Origin and nature State a favorite theme of speculation by political nature of the theorists. We are familiar with the attempts of Hobbes and Locke to find the origin of the State in the need felt by man to escape from the chaos of an assumed state of nature. We likewise recall the theories of Rousseau and others concerning a "Social Compact." Of much greater value than the speculations of theorists and philosophers would be a careful analysis of the reasons which led the Pilgrims to erect a State in the New World. We might better understand the origin and nature of the State if we understood the aspirations of the Poles, the ambitions of the Balkan States, and the aims of the Albanians, the latest claimants to international recognition. The object of the State may be variously Object of the expressed as the pursuit of happiness, liberty state of conscience, the good of the greatest number, power, or freedom in general. Cicero's defini- tion of a State as "a body of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by their combined strength"1 is as satisfactory as any. Community of As a matter of fact, International Law is not greatly concerned with the origin and nature of the State, provided it does not exist for the purpose of annoying or plundering its neighbors. The vitally significant fact which International Law must recognize is that there is a natural tendency among men to gravitate together in distinct national groups, in accordance with common sympathies and a community of interests. Factors It is therefore of fundamental importance to communitygof analyze carefully the factors which serve to interests constitute that community of interests w...