Logo
Prev
Bookmark
Rotate
Print
Next
Contents
All Pages
Related Articles
Browse Issues
Help
Search
Home
'
National Geographic : 1914 Oct
Contents
good feeling and political acumen of the nation. He has been invested with every civil privilege it is in the power of the State to bestow. Nay more, honors which stand, as it were, at call he puts aside. Consequently the Jew is thoroughly identi fied with the nation. He has, by means of intermarriage and by apostasy, brought to a law-ridden, but in its in most soul a traditionally law less, people the inestimable leaven of stability. The com mercial awakening of the country owes much to him; it could scarcely be other wise. He has left an in delible mark upon her insti tutions, and in other ways has laid the country of his adoption under obligations. Save for this solitary ex ception, whose attributes lift it almost to another plane, the failure of the Magyar to assimilate elements obviously and admittedly inferior, in almost every sense-moral, physical, mental, political- is perfect and complete. By joining herself to Aus tria, Hungary is saved the consequences of pure isola tion. The effect of the combina tion is to leave Hungary not quite free. As a State she is independent; as a political factor her identity is merged in that of the Dualism. All her leisure is thus devoted to setting her house in order. And indeed this is a work which might well daunt her. In Western societies the State is an organism whose constituents embrace the people. Here it is a some thing divinely inspired and existing independently of the citizen body. The Magnates and the In tellectuals who direct the Photo by A. W. Cutler A SERVIAN VENDER OF ODDS AND ENDS AT BUDAPEST Note the curious footgear. A coarse fiber, like loose string, covers the top of the shoe in uniform rows
Links
Archive
1914 Nov
1914 Sep
Navigation
Previous Page
Next Page
