. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. POLISH TYPES OF LITTLE by V. Foulquier. itself more than to the Russian of the They and the Poles alike are Poles with the Slavs, and Russian and Pol-Russian liberals. . ish reformers join their sen-timents and strike hands in re
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. POLISH TYPES OF LITTLE by V. Foulquier. itself more than to the Russian of the They and the Poles alike are Poles with the Slavs, and Russian and Pol-Russian liberals. . ish reformers join their sen-timents and strike hands in revolutionary and ineradicable than the dislike, thehatred, of the Polish patriots for the im-perial despotism which has been estab-lished over their country and have the liberality, however, to 182 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. perceive that it is not the Russian peo-ple, but the House of Romanoff thatoppresses them and destroys their na-tionality. That dynasty has inherited the enor- That mind aspires to emancipation, andseeks inyeterately for the creation ofpolitical institutions whereby the pop-ular will may be lawfully expressed. Itthus happens that the Poles—with the. POLES OF POSEN—TYPES,—Drawn by V. KoiiIr,iiier. mous powers and prerogatiyes which theczars of Muscoyy asserted Strength and . . ^ tyranny of the aforctimc o\QX barbarous Romanoff rule. i ^i ^ „ races, and then trans-mitted to their successors. The im-perial system is fortified by aristocracyand military force. It has at its com-mand eyery resource which tyranny andself-interest haye been able to inventor discover. Against it is arrayed theSlavic mind, whether Russ or Pole. exception of such of their nobility ashave found it to their advantage to castin their lots with the great autocracy—and the Russian liberals have a commoncause against the empire and its repre-sentatives. We have already spoken of the vastvariety of ethnic character variety of char-displayed by the Slavic roTJlTa^,races
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