. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ir~2 Ovor 30 ii,c Ocer 10 it. Formerly, when the Poles were the sole masters of the country, their lan- guage slowly gained ground ; but the Ruthenians are now recovering all they lost, although many educated people in the towns beyond the San prefer to use Polish. The two nations differ also in religion, for whilst the Poles are Roman Catholics, the Ruthenians belong to the Greek Church. Most of the small Rutheniun nobles, derisively called cJwdaczkova sz/ac//ta, " sandal-wearing gentlemen," are Greek Catholics, whilst the large landow
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . ir~2 Ovor 30 ii,c Ocer 10 it. Formerly, when the Poles were the sole masters of the country, their lan- guage slowly gained ground ; but the Ruthenians are now recovering all they lost, although many educated people in the towns beyond the San prefer to use Polish. The two nations differ also in religion, for whilst the Poles are Roman Catholics, the Ruthenians belong to the Greek Church. Most of the small Rutheniun nobles, derisively called cJwdaczkova sz/ac//ta, " sandal-wearing gentlemen," are Greek Catholics, whilst the large landowners belong to the Roman Church. The Ruthenians, or Red Russians, have never been able to agree with their kins- men the Poles. They are Russians certainly, though speaking a dialect difl'ering from that of the Muscovites, to whom, moreover, they are dissimilar in customs. The descendants of numberless exiles, who fled the yoke of Russian despotism, live
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