English Translation

33 - 5 - - a According to his political prehistory, the Bohemian nobility has a strong relationship with the analogue eastern relations of Central Europe until this time. We see a divorce in high and lower, and the latter is, as in our time, for example, the Hungarian Gentry, the main bearer of the national tradition. In keeping with the nature and the entire historical situation of Bohemia, it moves in two areas, the national and the denominational. The Czech lower nobility, in particular, was considered to be the advocate of the national-Czech and at the same time anti-Catholic ideals. The new situation of domination automatically also draws the lines of the new political fronts. They are determined by two opposites. Habsburg, from his world position given by the Spanish family connection, draws ever more decisively the position of the Catholic anti-reformist supremacy. As a result, it encounters the Hussite-anti-Catholic attitude of the lower and a part also of the high Bohemian nobility. The dynasty then becomes the first and victorious pioneer in the reform of the state of the future in Central Europe: the absolute large-scale princely state. It thus meets the tendencies of the people towards respect for the privileges of the population in the social and political spheres as well as in the area of the individualities of the countries. The second essential olitic front emerges from this range of contrasts. As in France, the ethnic opposition of the Fronde to the absolutist aspirations of the Lander confessional (hugenottisch) is undermined, so also in Bohemia: he dynastic-Catholic-centralistic-hisst-Catholisch-Landesfreilich. This first simple and clear front position is now complicated by the fact that Bohemia, as from its beginnings, is interwoven precisely into the extreme relationship of the whole of Germany, which at that time was fermented and uncertain, as it characterizes the period between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. Already from this general analysis of the situation shows that