“...our Russian Slavophiles, and Western thinkers of a similar view to them, could still think that the “raise of the Slavic spirit”, the desired “bringing together of the Slavs”, the liberation of the Yugoslavs from the power of another faith - in a word, that the civil freedom of the Slavs was greater than before will immediately express itself in them in greater independence of mind, in clearer national creativity in all fields and on new paths, which this backward, but supposedly “fresh” tribe will show to the rest of humanity, already tired of the long historical struggle... Until now, however, we We don’t notice anything like this among the Serbs, or the Bulgarians, or the Austrian Slavs...”