80. And day after day the Cossack Host grew and
multiplied and soon all people in Ukraine would have
become Cossacks, i.e., free and equal, and there would
have been neither a tsar nor a Polish lord over Ukraine,
but God alone, and as it would be in Ukraine, so it
would also be in Poland and then also in the other
Slavic lands.
- excerpt from "The Books of the Genesis of the
Ukrainian People" by Mykola Kostomarov, 1846,
in "Towards an Intellectual History of Ukraine",
pg. 97
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