In the majority of the above-mentioned tribes, aspirations as yet are focussed on the purely national question, because what our tribes need above all is security for their existence, although in some of these countries — particularly in those that border upon the West, concretely: the Czech lands, these efforts take on a political colouration. This results in the creation of parties. There can be no mention of real need here; the parties arise out of haste, braggadocio and a race to imitate the West, the constitutions and constitutional escapades of which are so pleasing to the Czechs. In this way the words ‘constitution’ and ‘reaction’ have become slogans of the day, which the nimble-witted and giddy Havlíček has begun to spread. In the Czech lands, radicalism as well as republicanism, a
