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pagan nations, or of maintaining studied neutrality against Russian politics, is paralleled by the policy of the Pope, who in pursuance of his secular and political interests never scrupled to ally himself with Protestant princes and peoples, even against the greatest champions of his own religious system.

The fact is that just as it is impossible for man to preserve his existence solely on the strength of his own psycho-physical system, but he has every moment to depend on the non-self for the forces and materials that supply food to his mind and body, and hence he can maintain his life and individuality so long as he is fit enough to utilise the environment in his own way; so also nations can maintain their existence and peculiar national