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29 ~ 7 - nationalis dignita" are known to every educated Magyar. Count Stefan Széchésnyi expressed the self-confidence of the Magyars by saying that all of Hungary could perhaps be magyarized within one generation. Belief in the power and usefulness, yes, in the only redemption by Hungary uttered/sicn in various laws, e.g., III l836, VI 184O; II 1844, XVI 1848, through which ruthlessly abolished the rights and habits of the non-magyars and pushed the magyar language into the foreground, The apostasy was, however, only with the Slovaks, Germans, Romanians, etc. For the greatest national virtue, Pulszky answered Thun that the Slovak should not feel like a Slovak in Hungary, and if he feels that way, let him immediately walk after Palacký and Šafařík, where it would not hurt him, Jan Kollár complains that one of his schoolmates, a Megyorone, exclaimed: "I stabbed his own father's heart if he thought he was a Slovak." Jan Čaplovič in 1843: "Real Magyars are basically nothing but renegades of Slovaks and Germans. See: Pulszky, Kossuth, Szontagh - Slovaks; Hensselmann - a Swabe; Josspivich - a Croat: With these lords the Magyar is the Belladonna, which burns their minds and robs them.' (Helpert, p. 77) The Slovak nobility, who has always despised the nifty people, was excluded from matei. llen and familiëren.Responsible to the gyar nobility, and thus the fate of Slovakia was sealed. The turkish one is worse sls, the danger of loss of the whole. Adel's and an intelligence, indirect or unrivalled by the state power, was greatly felt by these awakeners; and they tried in various ways to save them for the Slovak national attitude, from the standpoint of economic, political and social life, the aversion of the nobility to Slovakism was something terrible, and our awakeners had to fear a complete Magyarization and annihilation of Slovakia, unless they at least a larger part of the aristocracy. The nobility held all material urd political power in his hands, and stood against him, was called almost to build the building of Slavia on sand, but I do not wish that even the evangelical, in the Czechoslovak - 8 -