But no matter what may happen, whether Austria-Hungary will remain Hapsburg, whether the Allies will impose their will on her destiny, or whether the Russians will become the masters of the North Slavs, let us hope that the future map-makers will not be military conquerors, as was the case at the Congress of Vienna in 1814, or statesmen of the Bismarck type, who, at the Berlin Congress in 1878, were determined to separate the people of one race, instead of uniting them. Let the map-makers be ethnologists who will, wherever practicable, deliminate boundaries according to racial, not political lines, giving German territory to the Germans, Magyar territory to the people of that race, Slavic lands to the Slavs.
Bohemia would not assume the serious task of self-government as an inexperienced novice. Bohemia is one of the oldest states in Central Europe. As a kingdom she antedates the German kingdoms, not excepting Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria. Some of these were yet minor states when she already played a conspicuous rôle in the affairs of Europe. In point of population the United States of Bohemia--including Bohemia herself, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakland--would have within her borders a population numbering about 12,000,000. The combined area of the three first-named states is almost twice the size of Switzerland. Prague, the capital, had in 1910 581,163 inhabitants. As a wealth-providing and revenue-yielding country Bohemia stands unrivalled among the Hapsburg States.
I. HAVE THE BOHEMIANS A PLACE IN THE SUN? 17 Thomas Capek.
II. THE SLOVAKS OF HUNGARY 113 Thomas Capek.
III. WHY BOHEMIA DESERVES FREEDOM 123 Professor Bohumil Simek.
IV. THE BOHEMIAN CHARACTER 130 Professor H. A. Miller.
V. PLACE OF BOHEMIA IN THE CREATIVE ARTS 153 Professor Will S. Monroe.
VI. THE BOHEMIANS AND THE SLAVIC REGENERATION 160 Professor Leo Wiener.
Addenda. THE BOHEMIANS AS IMMIGRANTS 176 Professor Emily G. Balch.
Bohemia (German Böhmen, Bohemian Cechy[1]) has an area of 20,223 square miles, and is bounded on the north by Saxony and Prussian Silesia; on the east by Prussia and Moravia; on the south by Lower Austria; on the west by Bavaria. According to the census of 1910, 4,241,918 inhabitants declared for Bohemian and 2,467,724 for the German language.