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with this self-identity of national people.
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Now, Latin was the language.
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Latin was the language of science,
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of diplomacy, of everything.
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Part of what's intriguing and important about the scientific
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revolution is that vernacular languages begin to be
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used as a way of communicating scientific discoveries.
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There's a little bit in that chapter that you read about that.
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Certainly, language is closely tied to national self-identity.
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One of the ways when nationalism is most aggressive
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and most vulgar is when very ordinary people
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who are whipped up, egged on or in some ways urged on