The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereignty - is an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now - demanding and receiving human sacrifices from its poor deluded votaries - for four or five centuries. (Arnold J. Toynbee)

The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereignty - is an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now - demanding and receiving human sacrifices from its poor deluded votaries - for four or five centuries.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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