October 28
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Nations are born and grow with a kind of forgetting. Nations are born and endure with a store of memories.
Ernest Rnan, in a public lecture he gave in Paris in 1882, concluded that "forgetting...is an essential factor in the creation of a nation." People of different origins, who perhaps even killed each other in the past, shed those memories; the strength of the desire to come together as one drives them to forget.
Nations are born and grow with a kind of forgetting. Nations are born and endure with a store of memories.
Ernest Rnan, in a public lecture he gave in Paris in 1882, concluded that "forgetting...is an essential factor in the creation of a nation." People of different origins, who perhaps even killed each other in the past, shed those memories; the strength of the desire to come together as one drives them to forget.
"Every French citizen," Rnan said, "i
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