English Translation

29a 8 Awakeners also fell in love with the language in order to win the nobility. Therein lies nothing unna- - door-like from the point of view of the romantic conception of nationalism, and the Štúr followers would hardly have decided to create the Slovak if they had not had this first reason. Štúr's hope was not exaggerated, as was Marko Daxner's later hope, because a certain number of nobles really joined the Slovaks. Old Duro Kossuth was a Slovak poet, Franz Justh proposed in 1836 in the Pressburger Landtag to make the Czech, or Slovak, the official language of Hungary. In the Liptov congregation in 1848 and in St. Martin in 186l, several officially active nobles joined the Slcwaken Many other, less well-known nobles were zealous Slovaks. - Dar Naticnalism in itself does not mean a political idea, the national idea, which is mainly based on the love of language and standing, could quite well be carried out within the framework of the Hungarian state, and if it were not the astonished intolerance of Magyarism, it would certainly have stood out and, over time, would have gone into a Pure Hungaroslavism with greater or lesser aspirations transformed to participation in the state administration, The magyar hatred worked directly in our wake-ups to seek in the Slovak the effective weapon against the denationalization, The " magyarian nationalism presented a best possible state-law political idea, which was incompatible with other nationalisms and therefore the Slovaks, South Slavs and Romanians forced them to fight defense and also to change the idea, which promised the greatest success and the greatest viability. Štúr, Hodža, Hurban were educated people of Plebeian origin and dementaristic attitude, but they undoubtedly imagined the victory of their truth only by the power of broad, unfree, powerless and uncivilized masses. Unlike all the ideologies of the French Revolution, Josephinism, the emancipation of the Third Estate, they could not think about the power of the broad masses of the people as we do today, They could become monarchism -.6 -