""When I published my book "The Origins of the Bulgarians" in 1907, from which it came out that the Bulgarians were something better than what was being thought of for them, I was declared a patriot and therefore outside the law. Everyone who criticized me criticized me not in content or because the datavl that I stated is untrue, but because I was a patriot who reported the facts that the Bulgarians were both valiant and cultural when in the opinion of my opponents, it was obvious that the Bulgarians were created by nature as a fertilizer on foreign fields.... My chauvinism, proving that Thrace and Macedonia were old Bulgarian lands, threatened on the one hand Russia, which aspired to South Thrace as a hinterland of the Dardanelles and on the other hand, the Pannonian Slavs, who aspired to Thessaloniki. The opinion of Paninese Slavs was also supported by Bulgarian scientists."