France and Spain, e.g.

Usage examples of nations.

Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and prosperity will one day cause great changes in the world.

For the first time in the history of European nations a national organization and tradition was confronted by a radical democratic purpose and faith.

A certain amount of political freedom was shown to be indispensable to the making of a nation, and the granting of this amount of political freedom was no more than a fulfillment of the historical process in which the nations of Europe had originated.

The nations of Europe, much as they suffered from the French Revolution and disliked it, owe to the insurgent French democracy their effective instruction in this political truth.

The nations of Europe originated in local political groups, each of which possessed its own peculiar interests, institutions, and traditions.

European nations originated included, as an essential element, the action and reaction of these particular states one upon the other.

The more important competing nations had by that time overcome their internal disorders, and by virtue of their domestic reforms had released new springs of national energy.

No doubt certain nations, because of their perilous international situation, may be obliged to sacrifice the moral and economic individuality of the people to the demands of political security and efficiency.

Germany alone among the modern European nations is, in spite of the temporary embarrassment of Imperial finance, carrying the cost of modern military preparation easily, and looks forward confidently to greater successes in the future.

European system is, then, very far from being as well-defined as are those of the older nations, like France and Great Britain.

The nations of Europe are to all appearances as belligerent as were the former European dynastic states.

How can these warlike preparations, in which all the European nations share, and the warlike spirit which they have occasionally displayed, be reconciled with the existence of any constructive relationship between the national and the democratic ideas?

Each war, as it occurs, even if it does not finally settle some conflicting claims, will most assuredly help to teach the warring nations just how far they can go, and will help, consequently, to restrict its subsequent policy within practicable and probably inoffensive limits.

European nations, are the two whose foreign policies are best defined and, so far as Europe is concerned, least offensive.

That any one nation, or any small group of nations, can impose its dominion upon Europe is contrary to every lesson of European history.