Eminent Europeans - Studies in Continental Reality #265319

Yet to me, a native of the fair city of Budapest, the causes expounded by those pamphlets indicated realities — all the more real because I could View them from the perspective of prolonged absence. It is a commonplace to say that one discovers things by getting away from them. When I lived at Budapest — and I lived there the first twenty-one years of my life, — I did not know that there ex isted such a thing as Central Europe. I had to come to America to discover Central Europe. Like all awakening to the obvious hitherto obscured by its very obviousness, the discovery meant a revela tion.