Patriotism is rendered to a country that is one’s own. In view of this, it seems rather significant that the rise of nationalism has been cotemporal with the rise of democracy. The country is a part of one’s objectified self. And one cannot be a self without being objectified. He has to come to expression in some way, and he has to have the means and material through which to express himself. The individual would lose in individuality if his group were broken up. He cannot be a normal human being independent of the group; and the group for the civilized man includes “country.” “In a profound sense, man is born under the relations of country and of government. He can no more live a rational, civilized life without a country, and apart from government, than without the family and apart from the social order. Scarce human is the individual to whom are applicable Homer’s contemptuous words,--‘No tribe, nor state, nor home hath he.’”[94] The country pours itself into the individual. Jacks says: “The distinction between our own thoughts and the nation’s thoughts is being obliterated. Ask the first honest man you meet to tell you what he is thinking, and if he answers faithfully, he will tell you something of what the nation is thinking.”[95] The patriot instinctively feels the oneness between his country and himself, and often has a clear belief concerning it. Washington spoke of “that country, in whose service I have spent the prime of my life; for whose sake I have consumed so many anxious days and watchful nights, and _whose happiness, being extremely dear to me, will always constitute no inconsiderable part of my own_.”[96] Washington identified himself with America, and so do all patriots identify themselves with their country. If the patriot were asked why one should love his country, his reply might very well be, “Why should one love himself?” The identification of oneself with his country is greatly helped out by the fact that the country is an outgrowth of the family. The idea of kinship has been extended to the national group. The nation is believed to be of one race. McDougall in speaking of the self-regarding instinct calls attention to the fact that it is extended to others, and says: “... This extension should not, and usually does not, stop short at the family; in primitive societies the tribe and the clan, which are the collective objects of the regards of other tribes and clans, become also the objects of this sentiment; and among ourselves the growing child is led on in the same way to identify himself with, and to extend his self-regarding sentiment to his school, his college, his town, his profession as a class or collective unit, and finally to his country or nation as a whole.[97] The extension of the sentiment culminates in its application to the country, and this application has been historically possible because the country has been believed to be the organization of a homogeneous race.