The character of a nation is elusive, yet it must not be exempt from scrutiny. For a small nation, striving for self-awareness is both a moral imperative and a practical necessity. The Treaty of Trianon introduced us to a formidable adversary: the propaganda directed against us. The image of us that persists is preserved in historical portrayals,...
The Hungarian society, already burdened by the consequences of World War I, faced the threat of a "second war" of destruction: the prevalence of having only one child, emigration, and tuberculosis. What would become of the Hungarian people? This was the most pressing existential question. Lajos Fülep, a Reformed minister, drew attention to these...
For the entirety of the century and a half since Peter the Great, we have been preoccupied with one thing: the arduous task of engaging with all human civilizations and adopting their histories and ideals as our own. We learned and trained ourselves to love the French, the Germans, and everyone else as if they were our brothers, even though...
Russia largely shaped its culture from its historical homelessness. The question of the nation's legitimacy spurred the 19th-century intelligentsia to seek out what the Russian horizon was—or whether such a horizon existed at all. The hope, but even more so the necessity of such a horizon, brought a prophetic quality to Russian thought, especially...
Creation method: out of nothing. The Creator creates out of nothing, bringing the non-existent into being. This applies not only to matter, for with God nothing is impossible. Visible things did not come into existence through a process of development from previous states of matter, but God called them into being without any prior conditions....
The creation story speaks of creation over six days, considering the days to be 24 hours long. In contrast, the following objections have arisen, questioning this view.
We are nearing the end. The complete intellectual misery overwhelms us, decay has settled into us, and we are crumbling as well. And we continue to grin cowardly. We have hopelessly lost our human form. For a morsel of food, we sacrifice our souls, all our principles, the efforts of our ancestors, the chances of our descendants, and only the...
The thousand-year history of historians has expanded into the 2000-year-old Hungarian past of archaeologists and folklorists, through excavations and the collection of folk songs. This culture was the shared creation of the Uralic and Caucasian peoples, brought with us from Scythia. We are the heirs of peoples that have been crushed, swallowed, and...
"All this happened because people have forgotten God." This is the explanation for the great upheavals in Russia and the main feature of the 20th century: people forgot God. All the major crimes of the century were determined by the flaws of the human consciousness, which lacked divine heights.
The national character exists: it arises from the layering of a nation's historical experiences, traditions, customs, and worldview. According to the ethnological dictionary, the national character is the sum of specific psychological traits that manifest in behavior, ways of thinking, and mentality.