Question about which there is so much loose speech and careless political thinking as about the subject of nationality. It is chie?y due to the confusion between a nation and a State. They are not synonymous. All that is necessary is to quote one or two concrete instances to Show that such a conception is utterly false. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales are nations, but not States. Finland and Poland are in the same position; whereas austria-hungary is a State, but not a nation. Again; a nation is not necessarily the same thing as a race, because there are ties of affinity which con.