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The Open Secret of Ireland

CHAPTER IV
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But is "sentiment" to be ignored in the fixing of constitutions?
Ruskin asks a pertinent question.

What is it after all but "sentiment," he inquires, that prevents a man from killing his grandmother in time of hunger?
Sentiment is the most respectable thing in human psychology.

No one believes in it more thoroughly than your reactionary Tory.

But he wears his heart on his sleeve with a difference.

He is so greedily patriotic that he would keep all the patriotism in the world to himself.


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