The readers of this statement will surely be surprised by the great
contradictions which they will see in it compared to that which they read or
will read in "On Macedonian Matters" (Za Makedontskite Raboti).
To explain this contradiction it is sufficient to remember that there I
erred as an improvised politician. This policy was needed to neutralise the
Macedonian claims of the Balkan countries and to prove the ethnic and
historic individuality of the Macedonians. And because within this policy a
theme of the Bulgarian government could be discerned, I added extra and
sharp criticism to obscure it.
These extra arguments that suggested my opinion was not that of the
Bulgarian government but of an improvised politician on the Macedonian
Question, made the whole contents of the brochure so far removed from
objective knowledge, that I found it quite inappropriate, during my 2 month
stay in Sofia, to meet any of the philologists and historians. With this of
course, I caused a major blow to my scientific standing and knowledge.