NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47 Page 54 · 54 of 255
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47
English Translation
- lo - 45 Mr d dr d d d a in the realm or in America to make his way. Sociologically speaking: The vastness of the Habsburg Empire and its world standing gave the opportunity to compensate for local congestion for buoyant forces, while the current state tightness, even more so due to the monopolistic barrier of leading cliques, had to increase such tensions to dangerous outbreaks. Significantly, the serious word of a Slovak friend was uttered to me in a serious hour: "If God, in his great goodness, shows you German grace and now, after you have been tried out like no other people before you, in order to avoid fear of Hybris, should give you a chance of the order of Central Europe, then I firmly believe that you will only be able to preserve it successfully in the long term if you very largely follow the best traditions of our old Danube monarchy, i.e. if you do not encounter us with emphasized arrogance, but with all love and with a true sense of the same childhood of God of the peoples/, but also with the strict responsibility and responsibility of the greater brother, small, as it were, childish marginal peoples." This probably means: to let them play just as far a state as it is conducive to the necessary common kingdom and to them themselves, but to ensure that they do not lead to a serious upsurge - and be it through their own fault of their selbite administrative bodies - which must create the pitfalls of crisis, among which first and foremost the problem of the l/hedrawing and in educated Slovaks very popular thought of Herder's embodiment. - ll -