. 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. 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 reli
. 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. 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 fields for their own keep. Nevertheless, retained their village system of common rights, common duties,common responsibilities. And with the emancipation of the serf came. RUSSIAN WOMEN. the full responsibility of the wr//, or commune. The mir is responsiblefor the payments due to the State or to the former owners of the landallotted to the serfs. Avery notable plan, which comes nearer to socialismthan anything we find elsewhere in Europe, is that by which the allot-ment land is reallotted every three years. Of course every free peasanthas a voice in the w/>, and the majority rules. It does not follow that italways rules justly; but Russia is not alone in that failing. There is, however, not enough land for the Russian peasant in hispresent state of development. He has not capital enough to work theland fully by modern methods ; he is, as a rule, too far from Di^icuitiesthe great marts to gain the higher prices for his produce ; and of Russianthus even a very moderate
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