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14. Read the extract and answer the questions that follows:

Ernst Renan, 'What is a Nation?

In a lecture delivered at the University of Sorbonne in 1882, the French philosopher

Ernst Renan (1823-92) outlined his understanding ofwhat makes anation. The lecturewas subsequently published as a famous essay entitled Qu'est-ce qu'une nation

(What is a Nation?). In this essay Renan criticises the notion suggested by others that
a nation is formed by a common language, race, religion, or territory: "A nation is the hair is only 2 question please

culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. A heroic past, great

men, glory, that is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have

common glories in the past, to have a common will in the present, to have performed

great deeds together, to wish to perform still more, these are the essential conditions of

being a people. A nation is therefore a large-scale solidarity... Its existence is a daily

plebiscite ... A province is its inhabitants; if anyone has the right to be consulted, it

is the inhabitant. A nation never has any real interest in annexing or holding on to a

country against its will. The existence of nations is a good thing, a necessity even. Their

existence is a guarantee of liberty, which would be lost if the world had only one law

and only one master.

() Who was Ernst Renan?

(i) Why in his view, are nations important?​


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