Independent nations exist amid changing internal and external circumstances. To retain their internal cohesion, their independence and their creative power, they must work continually on maintaining and renewing an agreed and valued distinctiveness. A work of creative intellect, intuition and statecraft combined, its resulting national self-definition to the world is achieved through a combination of distinctive institutions and proclaimed distinguishing values. The English have shown themselves very good at this skill. Having learned many things from them, we would do well to learn this from them also.
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