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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature |
 | | At this period, too, the Jesuit Skarga, the purest embodiment of Polish patriotism in literature, preached and wrote, calling upon all Poles to save their country, though that country was then so powerful that his cry of alarm was like the voice of a prophet. |
 | | His inspired utterances, the truth and wisdom of his judgments in matters of learning, proceeded from his love for God, for the Church, and -- though he well knew her faults and blamed them with much severity -- for his country too. |
 | | While Austria granted autonomy to her Polish subjects, Russia attempted by a long and ferocious persecution to stamp out every vestige of national life, and in Prussian Poland, under Bismarck's rule, even the Catechism was taught in German. |
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