Literature is certainly being cultivated here, but in the sciences of the spirit, philosophy, history and the like, nothing worth noting can be found apart from Palacký’s Czech History, and in art and poetry, excepting Mácha, the Czechs have no creative genius of whom to boast.
Czech HistoryThe development of the technical sciences enjoys greater success, for the idol worshipped is wealth, for which the nation so yearns that, being out of reach for many in the fatherland, it becomes a great spur to emigration. All of this, of course, is of no service to the Czechs at all, insofar as their influence upon the rest of the Slavs is concerned. Their scope of possible operations is too small, their nation is crammed into too narrow bounds, though the demands of the spirit are great and far-reac
