“… The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.”

—  John Robert Seeley

p. 50 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsm3TLe1cAUC&pg=PA50
The Expansion of England (1883)

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