admit that a Hungarian count of aulic descendance who in the last year would have had every restless Hungarian killed, does not defend his own private dominion but the Hungarian people. It is probable that there will be not many persons like this, but some there will be for sure. But then how could I fight shoulder to shoulder with such people who after the danger will again become as they had been?

So today I imagine that even in case of such a catastrophe I would fight and defend myself individually. But who knows what will my awaken romantic patriotism command to me on that occasion?

Here you are the problem of patriotism, or if you prefer so, the problem of my particular patriotism;