. Siberia and the exile system. chical in-stitutions to which a hundred millions of people weresincerely devoted. If the statements of Count Loris-Melikofs biographer are to be accepted as true, Russiantelegraph-operators, Russian school-boys, Russian Jews,and Russian loose women must be regarded as new andextraordinary types of the well-known classes to whichthey nominally belong. There are no telegraph-operatorsand loose women, I believe, outside of Russia, who are ca-pable of engaging in a duel with the mightiest power 1 There are dots in the original at sketch of Count Loris-Melikof, pub-
. Siberia and the exile system. chical in-stitutions to which a hundred millions of people weresincerely devoted. If the statements of Count Loris-Melikofs biographer are to be accepted as true, Russiantelegraph-operators, Russian school-boys, Russian Jews,and Russian loose women must be regarded as new andextraordinary types of the well-known classes to whichthey nominally belong. There are no telegraph-operatorsand loose women, I believe, outside of Russia, who are ca-pable of engaging in a duel with the mightiest power 1 There are dots in the original at sketch of Count Loris-Melikof, pub- these points which indicate the omis- lished in the historical magazine Bus- sion of matter disapproved by the cen- sian Antiquity for the month of January, sor. The extract is from a biographical 1889, page 65. [Authors note.] THE CHARACTER OF POLITICAL EXILES 453 on earth and of extinguishing all the self-preservativeenergiesof so tough an organism as the Russian bureau-cracy. It would be interesting to know how this comba- i. VSiini/ SOPHIE NIKfTINA. (An administrative exile who died on the road to Eastern Siberia.) tive — not to say heroic—strain of telegraphers, school-boys and loose women was produced, and why theyshould have directed their tremendous energies againstthe serene personality that was so universally and so 454 SIBERIA spontaneously beloved, and against the monarchicalinstitutions to which all Russians, except telegraphers,school-boys, Jews, and loose women, were so sincerelydevoted. But it is unnecessary to press the thoughtful student of human affairs must see theabsurdity of the supposition that a few telegraph-opera-tors, school-boys, Jews, and loose women could seriouslyimperil the existence of a Government like that of a matter of fact the Russian terrorists were men andwomen of extraordinary ability, courage, and fortitude; ofessentially noble nature; and of limitless capacity forheroic self-sacrifice. Professor Lombroso, pe
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