STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (poškozeno) Page 75 · 75 of 85
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)
English Translation
-13 - 6S thank you for the restoration of a dualist idea of the state, whose national Czech decorations were without political weight, and about the more real character of the desired state system should only be deceived. Now it is without doubt the case that this conscious policy of standing, even now in the period from 1790 to l848, was at the side of a quite positive economic and cultural activity of the Bohemian nobility, which at that time had excellent men, - think only of those who are in friendly contact with Goethe - the Count Sternberg. - His leading men made a successful effort to raise the country's economic and cultural heritage. Through financial expenditures and active involvement of the nobility, the "Lehrte Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften" was created; the theatre, the national museum and the museum magazine were founded, Palacký was appointed Bohemian historiographers, who created "patriotic-economic society", the polytechnic institute, the association for the raising of music in Bohemia, the conservatory and the "association of patriotic art friends" with the academy, as well as special efforts for the agricultural and industrial uplifting of the country. V. Like Josefinism, which is a great turning point of the 18th century, the year l848 represents the decisive cut in the 19th century. l848, the federal cooperative between the nobility and the techechian movement breaks apart. Until then, this "patriarchal nationalism" still contained a strong national patriotic principle in all national aspects of the Czech moment. Now-- 14 -