English Translation

- 11 - younger growing generation, mostly petty-bourgeois origin, which was powerful in the Czech language. A positive relationship from this. This explains to the essential part that the Czech early nationalsimus was conservative, not revolutionary. It was promoted by the Bohemian nobility in support of its social and political position and thus also shaped. A revolutionary-radical direction, which, of course, also existed, could not compete with it in terms of importance. The first visible sign of this new change in the attitude of the stands is the coronation of Leopold II to the king of Bohemia l791. The stalls have the effect that the coronation oath is first read in Czech and then in German. These demonstrations continue. In 1793 the nobility in Prague sets up a peasant wedding in national costumes, in which only Czech can be spoken. These tendencies are interrupted by the French revolution and the Fapoleon period. It remains quiet even under the Regierung Franz II. But under the weak Ferdinand the stands again raise their head. They resort to the aspirations of the nineties. In the Lantag in 1842 the state of the lords voted to the Oberstburggraf Chotek the mistrust. l844 the old Landtag ceremonial is reintroduced. l845 the emperor demanded the maintenance of all the valid freedoms and privileges. When the emperor reciprocates this only with reference to the simultaneous validity of his current reservations, the states decide to proceed to extreme opposition. Once again, as in the Aera of Israel, national-popular applications are now being decided in order to provide the vessel with the favorable wind of public opinion. Thus the request for the introduction of the Czech in schools is made and on 3o; September l848 it is decided to set up "national constitutional rights" instead of the so far used words "Our rights and privileges" and where there was talk of the rights of the state. The purpose is clear, that existing rights should be regarded as rights of Bëhmee -Co13a