A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1854, sig. 109-5/82

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2/3a flowed intelligence. Yes, our people have always lived with the zeitgeist, the constant contact with the Germans was undoubtedly culture-promoting. There were also contacts with the wider West. That is like everywhere, even with large peoples. Science and progress are necessary international. However, in the 300-year-old servitude under a dynasty characterized by the leader of the German people in his well-known book, the national čechian peculiarity has in the main only preserved the so-called niese people. Despite Robot and all the limitations, the čehian peasant has preserved language, customs and popularity. Most of the time the so-called revivalists came from these circles, at a time that made something like this possible at all. I can invoke one of your spiritual heroes, Goethe, who has so often stayed in our area at that time, and who has taken the most active part in the new spiritual life in Bohemia in relations with men such as Josef Dobrovský and Kaspar von Sternberg. The period of reawakening has left important characteristics in the peculiarity of the Czech people. Everything that happened here at that time was not a fashioned pheasantry, that was the innermost feeling. If the Führerbuch finds such correct words about the Austrian governments, we feel one with it. The unfortunate slogan "Divide et impera" that comes from above divided us with the Germans. You have made both the Deutschen in Austria and we sacrifices. Under these conditions, individual peoples alternately also gained advantages. No one should believe, however, that the rise of the Czech people should be thanked for a benevolent promotion of Austrian governments. Quite the contrary. Every school was fought for, every cultural means had to be built from its own strength. The most apt example of this is the Czech National Theatre, a classical, balanced building of the Czech architect Zítek. Built from contributions by almost all of the people, burned down by a tragic calamity shortly after its opening, it is due to white 9 mistakes: ziFel, I bemme scimew fol war DenFreer, Von ilun sFamnt n. a. aneh was n/eimaner Miusemme, vas geman so hashre l like the Nat. Theater. fuiFonk