English Translation

33a - 16 - Meaning, when it moved life for a while and indirectly facilitated at least the foundation of the "Slovak Matica" and three high schools and the literary and humanistic activity of some faithful and gifted writers who had remained alive from the time. Štúrs. The second Provisional Council allowed the Slovaks to breathe a little, and the ten following years allowed at least to educate a more significant number of young people in independent middle schools run in Slovak and Slavic spirit. But the unhappy Vienna, driven back and forth between the two extremes of Germanizing imperialism and the impermanence towards the Magyars, in constant fear of foreign political entanglements or a new revision in Hungary, withdrew from the megyar terror and finally threw itself after the unfortunate year 1866 completely into the arms of the Magyar, The Austro-Hungarian compensation is. a document of astonishing trepidation and selfish short-sightedness of the Habsburgs towards the Czechs and Slovaks. The Austro-Hungarian balance of the year l867, however, has its historical model in l74l, in which Maria Theresia in fear for her inheritance won support with the Magyars, to whom she increased and recognized the noble privileges and the old customs of the dualist government. (Rappant: "Contributions to the linguistic relations in Hungary in the time before 1790", "Prúdy" year VI-366.) The Magyars themselves felt politics and already at the beginning of the sixties thought out all kinds of formulas with which they could deceive the non-magyars. The Landtag committee and:r mediation of the Baron Josef Eötvös, which had been sent out to the Memorandun of St. Martin remembered the famosc definition of the so-called Hungarian political nation (magyar nemzet), to which all individuals and individual peoples living in Hungarian territory belonged. By this fiction, which apparently was established by Deák and legalized in year l868 in law Art, XLIv, they wanted - 17 -