Introduction -- The poet and our time (1906) -- Boycott of foreign languages? (1914) -- The affirmation of Austria (1914) -- Our foreign words (1914) -- We Austrians and Germany (1915) -- Grillparzer's political legacy (1915) -- Austria in the mirror of its literature (1916) -- The idea of Europe (1916) -- The Austrian idea (1917) -- The Prussian and the Austrian (1917) -- Adam Muller's twelve lectures on eloquence (1920) -- Three small observations -- K. E. Neumann's translation of the holy writings of the Buddhists (1921) -- View of the spiritual condition of Europe (1922) -- New German contributions (1921) -- Czech and Slovak folk songs (1922) -- Address on Grillparzer (1922) -- Stifter's Indian summer (1924) -- The written word as the spiritual space of the nation (1927) -- The value and dignity of the German language (1927) -- Bibliography.