STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1753, sig. 109-4/1508 Page 107 · 107 of 166
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1753, sig. 109-4/1508
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V6. With its enemies, the kingdom has always known its own advice; but we ourselves, by appropriate means, want to combat a mere indifference or minority as well as distortion and calculation. If such a decomposing activity decays an educated man, this is certainly more dangerous for the world than the actions of simple people. On the other hand, however, we could not record a satisfactory slander of our public life if there was no merit of a crushing reverence of educated people in schools, authorities, in artistic and scientific activity and in organizations of everyone. I know that especially the daily press has already done a lot in this area and that it is constantly looking for new ways of an effective influence on the technical nature. Of course, time is so varied that it's necessary to avoid all the peacocks, but it is more necessary for us to meet the real pests of our cause. Of our internal concerns, as you remember, an incomprehensive reorientation of public life in the economic, social and cultural areas is most important. The main slogan is the principle of a guided society, which is not perhaps merely a discovery of the wartime or a provisional, but is also the basis of the future peaceful life. We have a purposeful combination of the element of voluntariness (e.g. in the case of