My inner revulsion toward the Hapsburg State steadily grew… I was repelled by the conglomeration of races which the capital showed me, repelled by this whole mixture of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Serbs, and Croats, and everywhere the eternal mushroom of humanity—Jews, and more Jews. To me the giant city seemed the embodiment of racial desecration… The longer I lived in this city the more my hatred grew for the foreign mixture of peoples which had begun to corrode this old site of German culture… For all these reasons a longing rose stronger and stronger in me to go at last whither
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