God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 2. 1795 to the Present
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 15 I stand on Parade As God has bidden, My Commission defray'd For leave in Heaven. For Freedom, ...
16 NAROD hierarchy of the Church was consistently hostile to nationalist aims. Certainly, the situation was not free from ambigu ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 17 indistinguishable from the language. In Julian Tuwim's memorable phrase, it was 'Ojczyzna-Pol ...
i8 NAROD with the completion of the masterwork of his literary heir, Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), whose Trylogia (Trilogy, 18 ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 19 points of differentiation varying from Hydrography and Pedology to Epidemiology, Nutrition, F ...
2.0 NAROD Polkowski's biography published in Warsaw set out to challenge the conclu- sions of Von Hipler's biography published i ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 21 with equal sensibility, recognizes nothing more than the 'feverish, morbid, diseased fantasie ...
22 NAROD Inevitably, however, the strongest single spur to Polish national conscious- ness derived from political frustrations. ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 23 day, Polish politics have been dominated by three distinct traditions, those of Loyalism, Ins ...
24 NAROD Yet as the devoted son of a family closely tied to the Confederacy of Targowica, he also gave whole-hearted support to ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 2.5 apolitical. In later decades, they were joined by an assortment of interests which viewed Na ...
2.6 NAROD imperial regimes. They knew few moments of success; and each of their abortive adventures provoked waves of repression ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 27 Mazzini's Young Italy. As a principal officer of the TDP's Centralizacja, or 'Co- ordinating ...
28 NAROD Active conspiracy was for the few, however. Much more typical for Poles who shared the same convictions, if not the sam ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 29 of his short life was spent in expiation. Already in 1825 in a long essay entitled On the spi ...
30 NAROD Philosophy at Wilno after only one year's tenure. His lectures, which coincided with those of Lelewel on Polish History ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 31 great deal to a particular breed of courageous and strong-minded women. The memoirs of revolu ...
32 NAROD Children such as these were won over to the Polish Cause for life, irrespective of its objective merits. They were taug ...
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN NATION 33 Antoni Radziwill (1775-1833), Viceroy of the Grand Duchy of Posen in Prussia, and of a long l ...
34 NAROD Surely you see, my young confreres, There is nothing much in dreams and swordplay It is all a waste of time and energy. ...
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