Since the foundation is so powdery and rotten, it will not bear the weight of any new structure. Here lies the non-productivity, indeed the danger, of all attempts at transforming Austria into a Slavic empire. Austria’s historical mission was to unite into one, greater — Central European — state all the tribes and nations separated from their previous wholes, and to create from these torn-away parts one wide-spreading new whole, in which the individual nations, after the removal of all earlier frictions and quarrels, would develop peacefully alongside one another, able to successfully repulse the barbarian incursions of the Turks. But circumstances changed with time; Austria lost her calling, having played her role to the end, for today hardly anyone in Europe fears the Turks. Another powe
