The spontaneous habituation of patriotism has no conscious and set purpose, institution, or program. This is the habituation that makes itself felt from the mere fact that individuals in a society tend more and more to become assimilated to one another. Germany affords an extreme example of the deliberate habituation in patriotism. Every agency within the empire, including state, church, newspapers, schools, and so on, has been used towards securing a uniform result, that of nationalistic passion. But every country offers an example of the spontaneous habituation of patriotism. There is no less of nationalistic loyalty among the Allies than there is in Germany. It is interesting that the two kinds of habituation have come into combat. “Among the number of embattled principles and counter principles which this war has brought into the field, we must include as not the least interesting the duel between conscious national direction on the one side and unconscious national will and knowledge on the other.”[48] In the spontaneous habituation of patriotism we are dealing with a more subtle and powerful force than the deliberate habituation. The former goes deeper than the latter into human life. What we try to teach may not be learned, but what we are sets copy in the copybook of life. “The genuine beliefs, though not usually the professed precepts, of parents and teachers are almost unconsciously acquired by most children; and even if they depart from these beliefs in later life, something of them remains deeply implanted, ready to emerge in a time of stress or crisis.”[49]