Travelogues; . THE MOSCOW liOME OF TOLSTOI gusts of terror. Madness then took possession of the mob,and, helpless in its immensity, it ground out the lives of four-teen hundred of its atoms and maimed and mutilated manythousands more. Meantime, at the Kremlin, Nicholas, step-ping before a gathering of earthly royalties, placed the greatcrown of all the Russias on his head, and swore in the hear-ing of the King of Kings that he would save, protect, and MOSCOW 179 uplift the people confided to his care. But no blame canattach to the Tsar for the catastrophe. The blinded, igno-rant multitude that
Travelogues; . THE MOSCOW liOME OF TOLSTOI gusts of terror. Madness then took possession of the mob,and, helpless in its immensity, it ground out the lives of four-teen hundred of its atoms and maimed and mutilated manythousands more. Meantime, at the Kremlin, Nicholas, step-ping before a gathering of earthly royalties, placed the greatcrown of all the Russias on his head, and swore in the hear-ing of the King of Kings that he would save, protect, and MOSCOW 179 uplift the people confided to his care. But no blame canattach to the Tsar for the catastrophe. The blinded, igno-rant multitude that did itself to death but typifies the helpless-ness of strength and numbers when left without the rudder ofintelligence and cut loose from the anchor of authority. TillRussias masses shall, through the slow beneficent influencesof education, become intelligent, the safety of the nation lies. THE HOTEL AT TOULA in absolute autocracy. This consideration may throw newlight upon some of the problems discussed by Russian reform-ers and their foreign critics. Suppose the dream of Tolstoi tobe at once realized in Russia. Disband the army, muster outthe costly corps of police, abolish courts of law,— even lawitself,— give absolute independence of thought and action tothe hundred million souls who have not learned to think or I So MOSCOW act, and the Russian masses, like the vast multitude thattrampled down the victims of the coronation crush, wouldinevitably annihilate thousands in the terrible maelstrom ofa national catastrophe. My sympathies have ever been with the cause of indus-trial emancipation, and therefore with Tolstoi, for he is oneof the great champions of liberty ; but my reason, so far as
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