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Our men have good physical constitutions; they are sober, and very patient. Most of them are illiterate, but nevertheless their morals are excellent. In patriotism they far surpass their instruction. To what do they owe these qualities? I answer without any hesitation: To our national poetry. When, in 1389, Serbia was defeated in a terrible battle in Polye Kosovo (The Field of Blackbirds), where two sovereigns were killed. Sultan Amurat and Tsar Lazar, the Ottoman army overran the Serbian natio...n with such fury that our intellectual evolution was crushed at one blow; it was, so to speak, petrified. The national spirit took refuge in itself. Subdued and oppressed for centuries, the Serbian people continued their national existence at their own hearths and in their monasteries, founded by ancient kings, and hidden away in the mountains. For five centuries no 52 SERBIANS AND THEIR NATIONAL POETRY 53 school instruction was permitted, and ecclesiastics knew neither how to read nor write. They said mass and recited prayers by heart.
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