Although obviously dejected as was virtually every Hungarian, Homan ended his
essay of 1920 on a positive note by professing his faith in the unique destiny
of his nation in the lands conquered by their ancestors: "In the course of the
fifteen hundred years that preceded the Hungarian conquest, about thirty
nations have conquered ... various regions of our country. Yet, none of them
was able to establish a lasting rule. ... Hungary may be dismembered, divided
and truncated, its political unity may be shattered, but the country's natural
geographical and economic unity, and its people's cultural unity, which is the
product of a long historical evolution, are indissoluble. For this reason, its
political unity is bound to be restored within a short period by the mighty
powers of the laws of nature and of history."36