. The Great war. here is a bust of Tsar Alexander II, and underit the dedicatory inscription: To the Tsar Liberator, the grateful peasant members ofthe State Duma; 1861-1911—Slaves then—Lawgivers now. A retrospective view over the course of half a cen-tury, away from the calamities which obscure the present,reveals the fact that the general movement of the Russianpeople, though faltering and attended with bloody crises,is upward towards the light of a higher civilization. We have thus far investigated with reasonable thorough-ness the nature of the moral factors, the impulses andfeelings of so
. The Great war. here is a bust of Tsar Alexander II, and underit the dedicatory inscription: To the Tsar Liberator, the grateful peasant members ofthe State Duma; 1861-1911—Slaves then—Lawgivers now. A retrospective view over the course of half a cen-tury, away from the calamities which obscure the present,reveals the fact that the general movement of the Russianpeople, though faltering and attended with bloody crises,is upward towards the light of a higher civilization. We have thus far investigated with reasonable thorough-ness the nature of the moral factors, the impulses andfeelings of society in the different countries, which oncereleased, like uncontrollable torrents, rolled on throughnational, political, and social channels with increasingvolume and imposing energy towards the awful catas-trophe which the world is now enduring. We must nowturn to the physical instruments, the armies and navies ofthe belligerent powers, which were impelled to frenziedactivity by the forces already I he Duma in session.
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