Ilarion Ruvarac: It is easier and more advantageous to believe and accept with faith the Serbian legends and fabrications and to defend them against corrosive criticism

Ilarion Ruvarac: It is easier to believe and accept Serbian legends and fabrications and to defend them against corrosive criticism

Cited:

“Иларион Руварац

”У нас Срба и посрбљених међу нама Бугара, Влаха, Цинцара и Арбанаса лакше и пробитачније /је/ веровати и примати с вером скаске и измишљотине и бранити их од разједајуће критике /…/, него ли не веровати, те онда морати доказивати зашто не треба веровати у скаске и измишљене приче, које су толики обиљни, учени и разборити писци примили за истину и готов новац.”

English translation:

“Ilarion Ruvarac

Among us Serbs and the Serbianized people among us — Bulgarians, Vlachs, Aromanians (Tsintsars) and Albanians — it is easier and more advantageous to believe and accept with faith the legends and fabrications and to defend them against corrosive criticism /…/, than not to believe, and then to have to prove why one should not believe in the legends and invented stories that so many abundant, learned and judicious writers have accepted as truth and ready cash.”

Source

(Đurađ Vuković, Serbian despot, and Gjergj Kastrioti-Skanderbeg, Albanian voivode, year 1444, Letopis Matice srpske, vol. 2, Novi Sad, 1902, p. 5)

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