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The Russian Revolt; Its Causes, Condition, and Prospects

The Russian Revolt; Its Causes, Condition, and Prospects

Noble, Edmund

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150616598
ISBN13: 9781150616594
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... EUROPE AND THE REVOLT: THE FUTURE. The conclusion that, under the existing regime in Russia, the revolt is a permanent element of the national life thus becomes inevitable. It is an essence, a nature of things, rather than a mere phenomenon. Its inner reality exists independently of its outer accident or form. Just as a mass of water may assume the character of a still lake, a rippling brook, a noisy waterfall, may ascend even in vapor and appear as a cloud, yet retain unchanging the nature and properties of its essence, so the Russian revolt takes all protean shapes in the process of its expression. Constrained by circumstance to manifest itself as passive discontent, as religious protest, as philosophical dogma, as ethnological sentiment, as negation in criticism, as nihilism in morals, as socialism, as incitement to revolution, or as violence and terrorism, the revolt never varies in its inner being, never changes in its essence, but remains the immutable antithesis of, absolutism; in this aspect not tainted with the immorality of force, or soiled with the shedding of blood, but fair as the cause of human liberty, and irradiated with the sunlight of awakened human consciousness in its struggle with the darker hemisphere of the national life. What is true of the various parties who champion the revolt is true also of the demands they make. Their programmes have an illustrative but no absolute value. Any reforms that remove the grievances out of which the revolt has arisen will at once make the revolt impossible. At the head of these grievances stands absolute power. We have already seen to what a degree this principle is opposed to the racial sentiment, and contrary to the national traditions. The popular institutions protest against it. Organizations l...

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