Travelogues; . THE HOTEL AT TOULA in absolute autocracy. This consideration may throw newlight upon some of the problems discussed by Russian reform-ers and their foreign critics. Suppose the dream of Tolstoi tobe at once realized in Russia. Disband the army, muster outthe costly corps of police, abolish courts of law,— even lawitself,— give absolute independence of thought and action tothe hundred million souls who have not learned to think or I So MOSCOW act, and the Russian masses, like the vast multitude thattrampled down the victims of the coronation crush, wouldinevitably annihilate thou
Travelogues; . THE HOTEL AT TOULA in absolute autocracy. This consideration may throw newlight upon some of the problems discussed by Russian reform-ers and their foreign critics. Suppose the dream of Tolstoi tobe at once realized in Russia. Disband the army, muster outthe costly corps of police, abolish courts of law,— even lawitself,— give absolute independence of thought and action tothe hundred million souls who have not learned to think or I So MOSCOW act, and the Russian masses, like the vast multitude thattrampled down the victims of the coronation crush, wouldinevitably annihilate thousands in the terrible maelstrom ofa national catastrophe. My sympathies have ever been with the cause of indus-trial emancipation, and therefore with Tolstoi, for he is oneof the great champions of liberty ; but my reason, so far as. ON THE WAY TO TOLSTOIS COUNTRY-SEAT the Russia of the present is concerned, must render adecision in accord with the Tsar, and with his conservativeministers. The home of Count Tolstoi in Moscow is an unpreten-tious dwelling, to which we sent our guide, one day, to askif the count would see us if we should call. The servantstold the guide that the count was out. He was ; for as our
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