The country

"The revival of Hungary began before Széchenyi. The language renewalists, though they were also tongue-lashers, were the oil for the lamp which Széchenyi then lit and carried around before the minds. Széchenyi was a sent soul, like Kossuth, Deák and the three writers Petőfi, Arany and Jókai. The caterpillar that moults suffers from a sleeping sickness. After the illness it is more beautiful, healthier, stronger, bigger. What a wonderful rebuilding of a (vile one to us) worm-body creature. But the laws, the rules, the requisites of reconstruction were already in him. All the patterns of the flower's life are similar. The man, the worm, the grass seed, the star-family of the sun: all have Intelligence behind them."