. 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. —The Cossacks—Frontier warriors—Partial independence—The Lapps and Finns—Finno-Ugrian group of Mongoloids—Physical characters—Partial independence of Finland-Moral characteristics. PANSLAVISM is a phrase of the time, andsignifies much to the Slavs. Some peoplewould persuade us that it is a mere product ofuniversity or theoretic study—a partial or localfeeling, by no means sha
. 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. —The Cossacks—Frontier warriors—Partial independence—The Lapps and Finns—Finno-Ugrian group of Mongoloids—Physical characters—Partial independence of Finland-Moral characteristics. PANSLAVISM is a phrase of the time, andsignifies much to the Slavs. Some peoplewould persuade us that it is a mere product ofuniversity or theoretic study—a partial or localfeeling, by no means shared by the manymillions of Slavs who own allegiance to theCzar. Some regard it as only a formof the turbulence, the love of revolu-tion, the ardour for conflict, which characterisemany Slavs. But the enthusiasm with whichthe last Russo-Turkish war was taken up, thereadiness of the Russians to make great sacri-fices for national causes, should prove thatthere is a feeling deeper than turbulencewhich tends to unite all Slavs, just as it is a feeling deeper than unityof language which knits Australians to Britons, and keeps the peacebetween the United States and Great Britain. An idea has grown up 154. Panslavism. THE RUSSIANS. 155 among the Slavs, of a future greater empire which shall include all members of the Slavonian race, and which shall dominate„ ,. . Idea of future Eastern and South-eastern Europe. Divided though they Slavonicnow are under different rulers, it has only been by vigorous ®™P^^®-efforts that the non-Russian Slavs have been more or less assimilated insome cases to their conquerors, and in others are retained in tolerablepeaceableness under their rule. Through the long series of changes,conquests, advances, and retreats which have crowded the history of therace, a remarkable unity of feeling and instinct has been preservedamong them ; so that the Austrian emperors dread the spread of Pan-slavism more than any other danger to which they ar
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