1. THE SLAVS IN THE PAST
1. THE SLAVS IN THE PASTWHAT THEY LACKED AND WHERE THEY EXCELLED
WHAT THEY LACKED AND WHERE THEY EXCELLEDTHE QUESTION OF THEIR MISSION IN HISTORY
THE QUESTION OF THEIR MISSION IN HISTORYThe time has truly arrived, my brothers, for us to come to an understanding. These sad days are calling to us from on high, summoning us directly, with sonorous voice, to deeds, and for that we need, above all, accord.
Give ear, therefore, to these words, the aim of which is concord among us all, brothers; give ear to them, all of you — you who find yourselves at the distant, powerful north-east, you there in the enslaved south, and you too, beleaguered, in foreign service to the tyrants of the west; give ear to them all of you, in all regions and hamlets, wherever the Slavic to
