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Excerpt from On Plain and Peak: Sporting and Other Sketches of Bohemia and Tyrol
But Far stronger than any class prejudice, there exists in Bohemia the most intense racial hatred. Whilst the inhabitants of the south and central portions of the country are mostly Slavs, those of the north and the Saxon and Bavarian frontiers are German. The Slav hates the German, and the German reciprocates the feeling with interest. The Slav will speak nothing but Bohemian, even if he knows German; the German longs to see the Bohemian language forced out of existence by Act of Parliament. It is the Old struggle of centuries - the struggle of language and nationality - still going on.
This racial hatred is the greatest danger to the Austrian Empire. An Austrian does not say, I am an Austrian but, I am a Bohemian, or, I am a Viennese, or, I am a Moravian. It is not the glorification Of the whole Empire that he looks for, but that Of the portion of it to which he himself belongs. Austria's peril lies in the fact that she consists of a conglomeration Of particles, each one of which wishes to be independent of the others.
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