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27 -3 "ge and about 400 Magnate families ruled in Hungary, and- that says sufficiently why a democratic one is still possible in Hungary.Regięrung is not possible, even though many noble families impoverished over time, nevertheless political and social privileges separated and a clearly high degree of education these numerous population layers from the simple Volke, of our older politicians became aware of this infinitely sceptical role of nivelization of the nobility with the non-free people, I only believe Stefan Marko Daxner. The ideas of the French Revolution and the reforms of Joseph II had an impact in both Bohemia and Slovakia. Only in this form did they prevail differently. Bernolák's attempt at an independent Slovak language - without a doubt also had a political-national intention and Štúr wool te all his swarming Romanticism to the tregtz of Slovakia to make politically self-indigenous unl liberate, It is natural, and finally it was not made in Bohemia either that the final pclite liberation had to precede the spiritual liberation, that the rebirth and revival of the people was only necessary: strong development of literature, language and 'national art was possible. The free-minded ideas would have prevailed even without the pressure of Magyarism, but because the Magyarism reacted to un-erent nationalism with an almost oriental rage and because the nobility also took the new ideas out of social-political wrangling, for he saw in them an A : ismarked means to subjugate the foreign peoples, and a powerful weapon of a unified 'Hungary against the absolutism of the Habsburgs, unified by the language and soul. - he wanted to receive his privileges in this way - our nationalism had to accept the character of the defense and the language struggle. 33 The increase of the magyar nationalism, - According to gross and certainly imperfect estimate of the ma-gyaric'historian Acsády (Magyarors: ág népessége a Pragm.Sanctio korában) the Gvohi number in Hungary in 1720 was 2 1/2 million, of them' 1,:60,000 Magyars and 1,421,O0ð non-magyars. The Turkic warc and the Rákoczy- - 4 -