THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM IN RUSSIA.
* Tub spirit of equality and brotherhood universally prevalent in Russia, is the spiritual foundation of all democratic go\ernnient. Strange as it may sound to the English theorist, Russia stands for democracy, Jo outward appearance the Russian Government is an autocracy, but that autocracy is of an essentially democratic nature. The Russian Empire is a huge peasant commonwealth, a federation of forty thousand democratic republics thousands of which have retained their socialist and eollectivist organisation of the j • Mir or village community. And it is because the Russian is* animated with that noble passion for freedom it is because he is not politically servile like the Prussian, it i 6 because the Slav refuses to be a slave, that we may look forward with every confidence to the result of the new Liberal Constitution which the Russian people conquered in 1905.—Dr Sarolea, in Everyman.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16050, 16 October 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)
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