English Translation

37 -23.- more than 40 secondary schools, about 20 commercial and trade schools and 16 teacher institutions completely magyarized. The youth magyariized rapidly and the knowledge of the Magyar language made so rapid progress that up to the remote villages the number of magyarians and speakers increased. In the cities almost everyone could magyara. The number of Slovak university students fell from year to year. The academic association "Tatran" in Vienna arrived already in 1898, the Budapest "Slovak Association" and in recent years the Prague "Detvan" actually only vegetated. "Salash" in Klausenburg was only a table company of 5 - 10 national-conscious students. In spite of the hard and eager work of individual, despite the great sacrifice of the leading patriots in material and moral terms and despite the undeniable successes of St.Martin, Skalitz and Roßenberg, as well as the Czechoslovak workers in Prague, the Slovaks would have had to be subject to the magyar supremacy if the world war had not come. In the 1980s, the patriots, who were educated and who were not denounced by the panslavist romanticism of Ludovit Štúr and later Svetozar Hurban Vajanskýś, felt that Slovakia was in danger, and that the people had to be shaken by lethargy and national darkness at all costs. In the year 1882 the National Party was set up, but it actually continued to rule until the birth of the Magyarian People's Party.Zichys in 1895. Officially the passivity was decided this year anew, and was not accepted at the National Congress of the Slovaks, Romanians and Serbs, but the Pact. Just next door it should be mentioned that at that time the foundations of the present little duck were created. Finally, Svetozár Hurban and Škultéty themselves were not so blinded to overlook the successes of Magyarism and the complete failure of the idea of Marko Daxner and Pauliny - F Toths to win the nobility for the Slovak language. But the old public-law traditions - 24 -