English Translation

We are not a young people with regard to our cultural aspirations, as it is sometimes assumed from the less informed side. The 1000-year-old wrestling under very peculiar conditions finds its expression in our peculiarity. The ancient truth, according to which the struggle is the father of all things, πólεμoş πaτs παvtωv, has also been confirmed here; Bohemia and Moravia have always been a hot ground and the many struggles have hardened its inhabitants, Čechen and Germans. However, it has not always been about the struggles of the two nations against each other, often it was common against the emperor and his system. The memorial plaque on the Old Town Square in Prague, which counts the victims of the Habsburg counter-reformation after the battle on the White Mountain, lists besides Czech also many German names, whose bearers have bled together for high spiritual values. After the religious struggles many, high-quality elites had to leave the Bohemian country. I recall our very well-known Comenius. The great German chemist Ke- kule from Stradonitz (a village near Laun) came from a čech émigré family. Even in peaceful times many Čechen have later moved into the world and many of them have done important things. I have only recently called the Cleveland famous fabri- kant Vlček, a blacksmith from southern Bohemia, and my honored friend Mr. President Ing. Lehký in Buenos Aires. The abnormally large, constant departure of the highest quality Elemen was a special misfortune of the Czech people. For a long time, we have been systematically decapitated and, in particular, have suffered greater losses in the leading strata than any other people in Europe, due to the internationalization of the remaining nobility. In spite of all that, even after tragic events, the Czech people preserved their peculiarity and almost unbelievably tenaciously adhered to their peoples, larger Slavic tribes than we, e.g. the Elbe Slavs, have been sucked up for a long time. It is incorrect to believe that the reawakening of the Czech People's Thought at the beginning of the 19th century was the result of the resurgence of the Greek people. In the early 20th century, an artificial appearance under a just outside of it 5