Sunday, February 06, 2022
National Union
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926; rpt. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1938), p. 100 (from Book I, Chapter XIV):
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The Semites' idea of nationality was the independence of clans and villages, and their ideal of national union was episodic combined resistance to an intruder. Constructive policies, an organized state, an extended empire, were not so much beyond their sight as hateful in it. They were fighting to get rid of Empire, not to win it.
