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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 217 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COSMOPOLITAN (Gr. Kbvµos, See also:world, and IroXirgs, See also:citizen) , of or belonging to a " See also:citizen of the See also:world," i.e. one whose sympathies, interests, whether commercial, See also:political or social, and culture are not confined to the nation or See also:race t% which he may belong, opposed therefore to " See also:national " or '' insular." As an attribute the word may be applied to a cultured See also:man of the world, who has travelled widely and is at See also:home in many forms of See also:civilization, to such races as the Jewish, scattered through the civilized world, yet keeping beneath their cosmopolitanism the racial type pure, and also to See also:mark a profound See also:line of cleavage in economic and political thought .

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