Which parts of this excerpt from William Dean Howells's "Editha" idealize patriotism?

"George: I understood—when you left me. But I think we had better emphasize your meaning that if we cannot be one in everything we had better be one in nothing. So I am sending these things for your keeping till you have made up your mind.

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"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry any one else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,

"'I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more."

"There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour there is no other honor.”

"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry any one else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,

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Loxia Loxia · Answer 2 · 2018-09-06T09:47:47+02:00

Parts of this excerpt from William Dean Howells's "Editha" which idealize patriotism is "There is no honor above America with me. In this great hour, there is no other honor.” and

"I shall always love you, and therefore I shall never marry anyone else. But the man I marry must love his country first of all, and be able to say to me,"

It is a story about a young girl, Editha Balcom who urges her fiance to fight in the Spanish American war. Editha tends to live in her own ideas and endeavors towards finding them in real life, as she is romantic in nature. On hearing about the war, she considers it to be 'glorious' to win her own hero by deciding that George Gearson, her fiancee to fight in the war, through this she was thrilled by the thought of romantic sacrifice. Her approval for George's love is through war, depicting the act of selfishness, which will enable her to take part in commitment to America. Hence, she claims that to love America above everything.