Diversity was a necessary feature of the creation,

Lovejoy on diversity;


Diversity was a necessary feature of the creation, God could not have willed, in His infinite goodness, to deny life to any possible species of creature, however mean or insignificant. Every culture, every individuality has a unique incomparable values, but also that there is a duty laid upon us to cultivate our own peculiar qualities and not mix or merge them with others.

A nation is a natural division of the human race, endowed by God with its own character, which its member must, as duty, preserve pure and unchallengeable. Since God has separated the nations, they should not be combined. Schleiermacher proclaims, every nationality is destined through its peculiar organization and its place in the world to represent a certain side of the divine image.

It is God who directly assigns to each nationality its definite task on earth and inspires it with a definite spirit in order to glorify Himself through each one in a peculiar manner. Nations are separate natural entities ordained by God and the best political arrangement obtains when each nation forms a state on its own. The true and lasting state is one where a nation is formed through natural kinship and affection. States in which there is more than one nation are unnatural, oppressive, and finally doomed to decay.

Herder’s argument is not so much in that in such states one group may dominate the others, rather they sin against the principle of diversity, for in them the different nations always run the risk of losing their identity, and are not able fully to cultivate their originality.

The empire of the Ottomans and Mogul were corrupt state which comprised a multitude of nations; while the state of china, and Jews, Brahmin had perished but have left the nation intact, because it has been able to withstand intermixture with other nations. It follows on this that the member of one nation must not take up the custom or the language of another nation. Such a man forsakes the spontaneous and the genuine and embraces the artificial.

Mehrab,