Question

describing the element of worship open to attack the author implies that it​

Answer 1

Answer:

Open to attack," in this context, means that this particular piece of the feeling of patriotism is vulnerable or defenseless to questions asked about it.

Answer 2

Answer:

leads to national sacrifice

Explanation:

Patriotism is a very complex feeling, built up out of primitive instincts and highly intellectual convictions. There is love of home and family and friends, making us peculiarly anxious to preserve our own country from invasion. There is the mild instinctive liking for compatriots as against foreigners. There is pride, which is bound up with the success of the community to which we feel that we belong. There is belief, suggested by pride but reinforced by history, that one’s own nation represent a great tradition and stands for ideals that are important to human race. But besides all these, is another element, at once nobler and more open to attack, an element of worship, of willing sacrifice, of joyful merging of the individual life in the life of the nation. This religious element in patriotism is essential to the strength of the state, since it enlists the best that is in most men on the side of national sacrifice

Question:2 )  Describing the elements of worship, “open to attack the author implies that it”

A)    is unnecessary

B)    leads to national sacrifice

C)    has no historical basis

D)    cannot be justified on rational grounds