THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
NATIONS
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE
PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published, November, 1919
This book contains two closely related studies of the
consciousness of
nations. It has been written during the closing months
of the war and
in the days that have followed, and is completed while
the Peace
Conference is still in session, holding in the balance,
as many
believe, the fate of many hopes, and perhaps the whole
future of the
world. We see focussed there in Paris all the motives
that have ever
entered into human history and all the ideals that have
