Spirit of nations

The citation of Montesquieu on title is very valid and suitable and right to define an wit, no certainly race, because this last is integrated to spirit and it is very factor; but I want underscore the wit of a people, that is different everywhere; I provide the denials, because the reader is going to say, : “My spirit no change never!”, on contrary it change and radically; we can imagine that an embassy invite us to a dinner; the protocol orders that rules of behavior, because it determine national rapports, thereupon you must have exemplar behavior, and stop. Our spirit is changed; certainly very little are invited by embassy, but to grade lower, a dinner among the friends or a party, the protocol want a polite behavior; therefore they invited alone person that we known and no certainly common people and impolite persons; thereupon our spirit is changed, and town is different, an house and an embassy, therefore to every town is a spirit; a party among friends, old classmates is very different to a party in embassy, and elegant dinner, because jokes, comments and memories are present and some episode, very amusing is habitual; but when we go out from home our spirit is different, because we are going  to meet other persons, and it is motive to change the spirit, when we are in our house we change again, because the context is familiar, and we change, after job, is daily. This series of examples is necessary to explain that the race is similar and the nations are spiritual production, made to men and peoples but people is men, therefore spirits, and a nation is a spirit; the race is very marginal factor, because the education is relevant, and it is obvious, but we are educated both out and in house, in home we are educated by parents and out home from society, the conformism is an education, because unofficially orders what is momentary costume; we educate our spirit always. The nations consequentially are a productions of our spirit, and a people that is composed of men and spirits; the spirit of a nation is his people. Mussolini said: “The race is alone spiritual condition and no certainly a real matter”, and Lessing note that the differences among peoples is physics alone.

Alessandro Lusana