. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. n ,, ,, = Images. ? every wall, over every door, in the bazaars, atthe exchange, in every publicoffice, in every shop or privatehouse. Every chuich, everychapel, every image, is besetwith worshippers, very nearlyfrom morning till night. Thereis no common labouier or arti-san, no water-carrier or droski-driver, that will go past with-out un bonneting and crossinghimself. Unhke
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. n ,, ,, = Images. ? every wall, over every door, in the bazaars, atthe exchange, in every publicoffice, in every shop or privatehouse. Every chuich, everychapel, every image, is besetwith worshippers, very nearlyfrom morning till night. Thereis no common labouier or arti-san, no water-carrier or droski-driver, that will go past with-out un bonneting and crossinghimself. Unhke the men ofmany other races, they are morereligious than the cannot say much for their churches architecturally, although there has been a lavish outlay of precious metals upon them. GaudyRussian they are the best, bedizened with gold and jewels. Some ofchurches, their shrines are entirely of silver, with many statuettes of pure gold. The priests vestments are often decked with the most costly jewels. There is undoubtedly a vast amount of simple unquestioning piety among the Russians, of rather too ignorant a type to satisfy the English mind. Unlimited credulity, however, is combined with a certain real. RUSSIAN PEASANTS AT HOME. THE RUSSIANS. i6i devontness which is pathetic. The Czar is much looked up to by hissubjects in a religious light, as father of his people and the p^ygg^j^n piety onlv riffhtful ruler, The earth of his fathers, Holy Russia, and regard • I %i I , tlie Cza!r the confraternity of all the Russians under the sceptre of the Czar, the common faith, the relics of the saints, and the graves of hisancestors, these seem to absorb the full heart of many Russians. The origin, nature, and persistence of the old Russian village com-munities, is a most interesting study. The Russian masses for centurieswere mere serfs, without freedom to move from home, whose time andbodies were their lords, although they were allowed to have vmagethe produce of certain fie
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