A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1753, sig. 109-4/1508

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92 organisations of private and public servants, or in cultural and social life) with the compulsory organization (especially in individual branches of economic life). I have always stressed the importance of voluntary organization, especially in the field of civic education. And finally: they also asked me about my health. The doctors claim that I am healthy and I feel that way myself too. I can't, of course, tolerate a youthful body performance with my seventy ehren of me. If I used to like mountain summit ascents, it is for me today a significant achievement e.g. to climb many stairs. If it's a pre-coaming thing that I don't go fast and straight enough, it doesn't mean that I've suffered a fall in my life - as some people have done out of over-liquid concern to maintain my insurrection. I have to apologize for a little care in my seventy years. I'd rather be younger, but there's nothing to complain about."