Symbolism and the Language of a Nation

If you wish to understand human beings, you must understand the movements of tour soul. The movement of hour soul can only be understood in terms of the particular symbolism which they use for the purpose of expressing what they have to say. In it dwell its entire world of tradition, history, religion, principles of existence. Its whole heart and soul in the works of the imagination and feeling are expressed by nation, language and words. This is a devol a doctrine, which, afterwards, people like sismondi and micle and mazzini developed into an entire theory of nationalism. But in herter itis not a nationalistic theory yet. And as i tried to say last time