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28 - 5 - Joseph II, did not have, and the Magyarization occurred most in the lower country and at the expense of the Germans not living closely together. One cannot ignore that since the 1960s, the magyar race has proved to be tough and ex-pansive since Abraham Bárcsai and Alexander Baróczi began to cultivate the Magyaric language and, as Karol Kissfaludy according to the style of our Kajetán Tyl, raised the magicic poetry to a literary X higher level (magyarian dramaturgy and ale xing Kissfaludiy).' The development of the Magyar language and of Magyarism was mainly a consequence of the Germanization and centralization policies of Maria Theresia and Joseph II, which economicly and politically damaged the nobility, the Magyars learned hard German and were jealous of the foreign '(German) officials, This economic moth became later very beautiful in nationalist Romahticism enveloped. The decree of the year 1784, with which the German language was introduced in Aemtern, in the Landtage and in the schools, caused a real storm. Here and there the popular language of the Magyar (lingua nationalis') is already mentioned, and it is demanded that it be used in Latin " or alone, How quickly and with how almost incomprehensible anger the magyar nationalism lived up and seized the hearts of the best men, can be seen from it that in a time of about 30 years it increased so that in the year lz9l the Landtag ordered the Magyarization of all schools. The Chauvinisnus covered the whole politically free society, the church, the Gauvartretungan, the authorities, schools etc, like a true epidemic, the first half of the 19th century is already filled with harshness and hational persecutions of the non-magyar. The ruhn les Latinische and the Toleřierùng of three or four other spreehs ceased. According to the manner of the gentleman, the Ante was shocked or thrown into the street, who did not submit to the often completely senseless system of Magyarization. Archbishop Patačič let each of his subjects, who was bold to speak Slovak, move 12 blows in front of his palace. The ill-beleumunded Count Zay, who was elected general inspector of the Evangelic Church in the year l840, called to his home of Uhrwerz (near Trenchir) as a clergyman a pure-blooded Magyar, who called the congregation with Hil- - 9 -