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“No one will be able to accuse us of narrowness in the face of the Catalan problem. In these columns before anywhere else, and outside of here, by the most authoritative of our people, the thesis of Spain as a unit of destiny has been formulated... Here we do not mock the beautiful Catalan language nor offend with suspicions of commercially looks at the sentimental movements – very seriously wrong, but sentimental – in Catalonia. What we maintain here is that none of this can justify nationalism, because the nation is not a physical entity individualized by its orographic, ethnic or linguistic accidents, but a historical entity, differentiated from the others universally by its own unity of destiny. .
Spain is the bearer of the unity of destiny, and not any of the peoples that comprise it. Spain is, therefore, the nation, and not any of the peoples that make it up. When these peoples met, they found in the universal the historical justification of their own existence. That is why Spain, as a whole, was the nation.
Spain is irrevocable. The Spaniards may decide about secondary things: but about the very essence of Spain they have nothing to decide. Spain is not ours, as a heritage object; our generation is not absolute owner of Spain; She has received it from the efforts of previous generations and generations, and she must hand it over, as a sacred deposit, to those who succeed her. If it took advantage of this moment of its passage through the continuity of centuries to divide Spain into pieces, our generation would commit the most abusive fraud, the most treacherous betrayal, that is possible to imagine.
Nations are not contracts, rescindable by the will of those who grant them: they are foundations, with their own substance, not dependent on the will of the few or the many.
Spain is the bearer of the unity of destiny, and not any of the peoples that comprise it. Spain is, therefore, the nation, and not any of the peoples that make it up. When these peoples met, they found in the universal the historical justification of their own existence. That is why Spain, as a whole, was the nation.
Spain is irrevocable. The Spaniards may decide about secondary things: but about the very essence of Spain they have nothing to decide. Spain is not ours, as a heritage object; our generation is not absolute owner of Spain; She has received it from the efforts of previous generations and generations, and she must hand it over, as a sacred deposit, to those who succeed her. If it took advantage of this moment of its passage through the continuity of centuries to divide Spain into pieces, our generation would commit the most abusive fraud, the most treacherous betrayal, that is possible to imagine.
Nations are not contracts, rescindable by the will of those who grant them: they are foundations, with their own substance, not dependent on the will of the few or the many.
