>                I wish to remind the world, by way of
> paraphrase of the
> thought of a great Elisabethan poet and moralist
> philosopher John Donne taken
> from his book Devotions in which he reminds all
> mankind that:
>
>                No man is an island, an entity onto
> himself: every man is a
> piece of the continent a part of the whole: if a
> fragment from that whole is
> washed away and sunken into the see, Europe is the
> less, it is deminished.
>                If Macedonia, that Ancient and
> biblical land that has stood
> for millenia as a natural bridge between Europe and
> the East,  is washed
> away, will not Europe herself be diminished?   Will
> the Europeans be able to
> cross to Asia and the far East on a broken , burnt
> and ruined bridge?  Will
> humanity as we know it ever be able to live in peace
> and clean conscience
> watching the demise of a country, of a people , of a
> nation, small but proud,
>  whose only sin has been the goodness of its heart
> and the magnonimity of its
> soul.  Therefore, Do not sit in apathy and listen to
> the bell which is now
> tolling for Macedonia, soon it may be tolling for
> you.
>
>
>   Professor Nestor Oginar,  New York
 

"Bi sakal da go potsetam svetot so toa sto ke parafraziram edna misla na
golemiot Elizabetanski poet I moralista John Donne sodrzana vo negovoto delo
Posvetenija vo koe sto ne predupreduva deka:

               Nitu eden covek ne e ostrovo, sam po sebe celost, sekoj covek
e del od kontinentot, parce
od golemoto kopno:  I koga del od taa sevkupnost e istisnato I tone vo
moreto, Evropa se namaluva,  Evropa gubi.
               Ako Makedonija, taa drevna I bibliska zemja koja sto stoi so
iljadoletia kako priroden most pomegu Evropa I Istok, iscezne vo dlabokite
morski vodi, togas nema li Evropa da stane pomala?  Zarem ke mozat
Evropejcite da precekorat kon Azija I Dalecniot Istok vrz iskrseniot, izgoren
I unisten most?  Zarem ke mpze covestvoto da ima spokoen son I cista sovest
nabljuduvajki go unistuvanjeto na eden narod, na edna nacija, na edna zemja,
malecka no gorda, cij sto edinstven grev e dobrinata na nejzinoto srce I
blagorodnosta na nejzinata golema dusa?
              Zatoa , ne cekajte so skrsteni race slusajki kako kambanite
bijat za Makedonija, naskoro mozebi ke bijat I  za vas."

Profesor Nestor Oginar