Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice teleological argument. I guess I'm with Hans Morganthau "Sovereignty points to a political fact." And as you say, "Great" Britain includes Wales and Scotland" (although this political reality may change at some point). But I see where you are coming from. About the "Great" thing. It's actually simpler and less bombastic that you believe. There were simply two Britains. "Great," meaning "big" refers to the island, differentiating it from the "lesser" Brittany, now in modern France. The fact that they were once confusable goes back a long way before the Act of Union and it isn't really a nationalist term since it predates the modern concept of Nationalism. Simon Stevens