More on Nationalism and OslerSir William Osler (1849-1919) was a Canadian physician who was a cofounder
of the Johns Hopkins school of Medicine and had great influence in the
development of modern medical practice. The quote
The first source contains a longer part of Osler's text. The full quote is below.: "Nationalism has been the great curse of humanity. In no other shape has the Demon of Ignorance assumed more hideous proportions; to no other obsession do we yield ourselves more readily. A vice of the blood, of the plasm rather, it runs riot in the race, and rages today as of yore in spite of the precepts of religion and the practice of democracy." |