English Translation

35a - 1o - MS Ug uoMgOa serfdom was violently shaken by his previous economic position. In addition, there was the introduction of a general property tax, which no longer took into account the character of the property as before. Against all this, a stormy reaction in the nobility rose. Without doubt, if this attitude had a "reactionary" character, it facilitated the method of carrying out other imperial measures to make resistance to it popular. For example, the ruthless and uncomprehensive hurling, the values, libraries and art treasures freed by the Köster Auflösung, even outside the nobility, has nighted evil blood, in particular the squandering of the art collection of Emperor Rudolf II, which made a very bad impression on the entire educated population of Bohemia. When it was said that Joseph II was a revivalist of modern nationalism in Hungary and Bohemia, there is just as much wrong as right. His reforms first met the positions of the aristocrats, so the reaction against it is also a reaction of the privileged, not of the actual people, from whose meaning, on the contrary, the People's Emperor has never disappeared. The importance of his measures for the emergence of nationalism, that the states had to look around to strengthen their 'position around a federal co-operative, and this federal cosmote was the national idea. Especially for Bohemia this connection of state politics and nationalism is particularly characteristic. It has shaped the political programmatics of the Czech national rise of the 19th century decisively. To protest against the Josefine centra- lism, the Bohemian states again began to deal with their historical position in Bohemia, from where they began to approach the Czech again. On appointment, they began to speak Czech from a certain day, in the antechambers of the imperial castle in Prague, although the language was only poor. This resulted in the need for contact with the 6?140.