. 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. e and cogency of nihilismconsist in the thorough rationality of itsposition. The Russian secular autoc-racy can not reform without destroyingitself. With it the destinies of theGreek Church are involved. Vainlywould the czar and the metropolitansand the Ho
. 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. e and cogency of nihilismconsist in the thorough rationality of itsposition. The Russian secular autoc-racy can not reform without destroyingitself. With it the destinies of theGreek Church are involved. Vainlywould the czar and the metropolitansand the Holy Synod debate a measure forreform when none is possible withoutabdication, and consequent revolution,and the total reconstruction of situation is peculiar to the Slavic 168 GREAT RACES OE J\rANKTND. races and to the nations which they haveorganized. The fundamental diihcultyis the absence among them of politicalinstitutions. Peoples having politicalinstitutions may reform themselveswithout recourse to destructive and rev-olutionary methods. Peoples having none can not ref(^rm the existing order,but must uphold it until the revolutionrolls under the fabric and throws it intoruins. It is a condition which philan-thropy may regret, and hope postpone,but for which a peaceable remedy doesnot appear. CH^FXER C—XHK r^^.. HE western boundariesof the vSlavic races areby no means coinci-dent with the properlimits of Russia. Thelines of ethnic distri-bution run out far intoCentral Europe. They tend in thatdirection as far as the Adriatic. Geo-graphicallv the twentieth meridian eastfrom Greenwich mav be Areas covered by the Western taken as the western bourn Slavs; the Poles. r , i 01 • i- ot the vSlavic having considered the great bodyof the race within the limits of the Rus-sian empire, we are now to follow thebranching lines westward to their re-spective terminations. The most north-ern of these developments is thePoles,terminated at the extreme w
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