English Translation

36a - 12= thus appear as "national". Thus we see the Bohemian nobility still fighting against the middle of the 19th century against the modern idea of the state and fighting for the restoration of a dualistic idea of state, whose national Czech ornaments were without political weight and were only supposed to mislead about the actual character of the desired state system. Now it is without a doubt the case that this conscious policy of standing was supported by a very positive economic and cultural activity of the Bohemian nobility, which at that time had excellent men, - let us think of the Count Sternberg, who was in friendly contact with Goethe. His leading men successfully sought material and cultural upliftment throughout the country. The "Lehrte Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften" (Scientific Society of Sciences) was created through financial expenses and lively cooperation of the nobility; the theatre, the national museum and the museum period were founded, Palacký was appointed Bohemian historiographer, the "Patriotic Economic Society", the Polytechnic Institute, the Association for the Uplifting of Music in Bohemia, the Conservatory and the "Association of Patriotic Art Friends" with the Academy, and special efforts were made to raise the country's agricultural and industrial heritage. V. CE noatadtorl codoa Like Josephinism, which is a great turning point of the 18th century, the year l848 represents the decisive one in the 19th century. l848, the federal cooperative between the nobility and the Czech movement breaks apart. Until then, this "patriarchal nationalism" still contained a strong national patriotic principle in all national leagues of the Czech loment. Now, the Western European radicalism is coming to a breakthrough. The "treachers" of the same people, which the nobility had promoted so strongly, decided not only the end of the territorial privileges, but the abolition of the nobile as an institution in general. Thus, a fundamental turn in its attitude sets in. An internal development between the supporting ideas of the aristocracy makes itself insignificant 69139