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34a " " - 18 - Attempt still the political passivity of some intelligible families. Not even in Bohemia did Hurban's efforts find the proper echo, and the magyar gentry, which held all-power in its hands, was even glad that the Pan-Slavists did not stand in its way in the elections and various actions. The people went to the election alone and chose for a goulash and material Vortai le without knowing who it chose and warun. Magyarization in the years 1880-19l8. Passivity 1882. After the abolition of the "Matica" and three high schools and after various failures in the courts, county, elementary school and church, the nationally conscious society overcame a great tiredness. Not even the new star in the literary field, Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský, who in a new way created his poems "The Tatras and the Sea" (l879), nor the intense sympathy of Czech writers Holeček, Pokorný, Hejduk, etc., were the great events in the Slavic Balkans able to prevent social and political decline in Slovakia. The Magyars acted ruthlessly and did not tolerate any more significant Slovak movement in the people. Assemblies, the right of collection did not exist for the Slovaks, where an intelligent Swak patriot dared to open his mouth or to spread Slovak magazines or books, immediately he was a notary. Gerdarm or Pclizist on the heels, The Magyars had organized their authorities so grandly that every official from the municipal servant to the staff, from the teacher to the university professor, from tax officer to the judge at the Supreme Court, from village chaplain to the Archbishop Cardinal, from postman to director, from Greisler to the Minister of Handesl, in short, every official and state, county and urban employee pulled on a rope," which bound the ganżen state apparatus to a single fixed, indestructible whole, These official reins held -19 -