Like the other Vedas it is divided into Samhita, Brahmanas and Upanishads, representing the spiritual element and its magical and nationalistic development.
Separated, each man tied to his country by ties of undivided nationalistic loyalty, none of these would have amounted to much.
The latter path was championed by the nationalistic Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the " decadent " West.
It is true that the nationalistic tinge is found in late writings (Chronicles, Psalms), and that its absence, therefore, is not merely a matter of date; but it is hardly conceivable that an author of any time before the 5th century could have ignored the nationalistic point of view so completely as Proverbs does.
Someone visiting your site may associate you with an extremist and nationalistic attitude, when all you wanted to indicate was that you love your country.
