Russian Rambles
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ISBN13: 9781443243469
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Excerpt: ... that is quite another matter. It is not necessary for me to recapitulate here that which all the world knows already, --the minute details of his belief in personal property, labor, the renunciation of art and science, and so forth. We discussed them. But I neglected my opportunities to worry him with demands for his catechism, which his visitors delight in grinding out of him as though from a machine, when the reading public must be sufficiently informed on that score already. I have endeavored to set down only the special illustrations of his doctrines, out of the rich mass of his conversation. Those who have perused attentively his earlier works will have perceived that there is really very little that is absolutely new in these doctrines. They are so strictly the development of ideas which are an integral part of him, through heredity, environment, and personal bias, that the only surprise would be that he should not have ended in this way. Community of goods, mutual help, and kindred doctrines are the national birthright of every Russian, often bartered, it is true. But long residence in the country among the peasants who do not preach these doctrines, but simply practice them, naturally affected the thoughtful student of humanity though he was of a different rank. He began to announce his theories to the world, and found followers, as teachers of these views generally do, --a proof that they satisfy an instinct in the human breast. Solitary country life anywhere is productive of such views. Disciples, or "adepts," began to make pilgrimages to the prophet. There is a characteristic, a highly characteristic history of one such who came and established himself in the village at the count's park gate. "This F. was a Jew, who did not finish his studies, got led astray by socialists, and joined a community where, like the other members, he lived out of marriage with a young girl student. At last he came across a treatise of Lyeff Nikolaevitch, and...
| ISBN-13 | 9781443243469 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443243469 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $24.45 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 172 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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