Assertion: patriotism | /r/CapableOf | widen its sphere
Facets:
value: from the clan
type: OTHER
value: gradually
type: MANNER
value: to the city
type: LOCATION
value: from the tribe
type: OTHER
value: to the state
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: English Historian G. P. Gooch in 1920 argued that "While patriotism is as old as human association and has gradually widened its sphere from the clan and the tribe to the city and the state, nationalism as an operative principle and an articulate creed only made its appearance among the more complicated intellectual processes of the modern world.