Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

■ "The nations o{ Transylvania should have respect for one another."

(Elek Benedek)

that appeared in My Newspaper, a publication jointly edited by Benedek and Lajos Pósa in 1890-91. In his recollections of Testament and Six Letters, a book originally published in instalments by Magyar Hiriap in 1894, the writer's son, the literary historian Marcell Benedek, quoted some of his father’s ideas: "Don't be shy to love your fatherland! Cosmopolitanism is the latest trend, but you should not bow to that fad. Better to be a savage Hungarian' than a meek patriot’". His whole life proved, according to Marcell Benedek's comment, that his "Hungarian savagery” was never tantamount to despising or loathing other nations, and that he never advocated "Hungarian domination" or "Hungarian supremacy”. A characteristic manifestation of his patriotism was the collecting of Hungarian folk poems, and his first book was a collection of folk tales Székely Fairyland, 1884). His major, two-volume book The Past and Present ofr the

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