Russia and Its CrisisUniversity of Chicago Press, 1905 - 589 páginas |
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Página 87 - ... the service of God into a profitable trade. Can the people respect the clergy when they hear how one priest stole money from below the pillow of a dying man at the moment of confession, how another was publicly dragged out of a house of...
Página 404 - With the spring of 1874 all discussion abruptly ceased among the circles of the revolutionary youth. The time for talking was over : actual " work " was in contemplation. The workingpeople's gear — boots, shirts, etc. — were hurriedly being prepared. Short greetings and laconic answers were heard: "Whither?" — " To the Urals," " To the Volga," " To the South,"
Página 326 - You yourself raised your hands against your own popularity. But not your popularity alone is now at stake. If autocracy in word and deed proclaims itself identical with the omnipotence of bureaucracy, if it can exist only so long as society is voiceless, its cause is lost. It digs its own grave, and soon or late—at any rate, in a future not very remote—it will fall beneath the pressure of living social forces.
Página 531 - ... emperor is forbidden by law and religion to introduce fundamental reforms of his own will — well, then a part of the population will come to the conclusion that these reforms must be achieved by way of violence. It would be equivalent to an actual appeal to revolution! " Mr. Witte played the prophet. As a result of this discussion, the manifesto of December 26, 1904, was published. It began with the declaration that "when the need for this or that change shall have been proved ripe, then it...
Página 326 - January 29, but a bureaucracy jealous of its omnipotence January 29 has dispelled that halo which surrounded your young, uncertain appearance in the eyes of many Russians. You yourself raised your hands against your own popularity. But not your popularity alone is now at stake. If autocracy in word and deed proclaims itself identical with the omnipotence of bureaucracy, if it can exist only so long as society is voiceless, its cause is lost. It digs its own grave, and soon or...
Página 528 - ... a regular representation in a separate elective body, which must participate in legislation, in working out the budget, and in controlling the administration.'' Of the ninety-eight members present, seventyone voted for this last clause as a whole, while the minority of twenty-seven was satisfied with its first half...
Página 404 - It was a revelation rather than a propaganda. At first the book, or the individual, that had impelled this or that person to join the movement could be traced out ; but after a while this became impossible. It was a powerful cry, which arose, no one knew where and whence, and which summoned the zealous to the great work of the redemption of country and humanity. And the zealous, heeding this cry, arose, overwhelmed with sorrow and indignation over their past life, and, abandoning home and family,...
Página 64 - The subtleties of Roman law as applied to the relations of God and man, which appear faintly in Augustine, more distinctly in Aquinas, more decisively still in Calvin and Luther, and, though from a somewhat larger point of view, in Grotius, are almost unknown to the East. " Forensic justification," "merit,
Página 325 - I am pleased to see here the representatives of all classes assembled to express their feelings of loyalty. I believe in the sincerity of those sentiments which have always been characteristic of every Russian. But I am aware that in certain meetings of the Zemstvos voices have lately been raised by persons carried away by absurd illusions ('senseless dreams' would better render the original words) as to the participation of the Zemstvo representatives in matters of internal government.
Página 364 - At heart we were one ; and our heart throbbed equally for our minor brother, the peasant — with whom our mother-country was pregnant. But what for them was a recollection of the past was taken by us as a prophecy for the future.