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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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Now the conditions of life at the circumference
are unlike those at the centre; the acceptable social
organisation at St. Petersburg is not the same as
that at Samarcand or Irkutsk. Sacred as are the
old traditions now, for the period of expansion is
short, it seems that they must be inevitably weak-
ened by time and distance. Even now one may
note, because this addresses the eye, that in the
new cities men show less than in the old of fetish
worship for the religious thing or priest; there is
less genuflexion, bowing, and crossing, but not less
of morality in practical life. In Russia, the Church,
*with all its forms*, is part of the form of the State.
He who finds himself unconsciously drifting from
the one set of forms is also departing from the other.
If the existing political body is unfit for the devel-
opment of a great people, we may feel that in the
ceaseless extension of its frontier the aristocracy is
preparing conditions which shall operate to peace-
fully modify those institutions which are inconsistent
with reasonable individual liberty. Powerful as will
be this retroaction from circumference back to cen-
tre, it will not, I surmise, be of the violent character
which may be expected in the centre itself. For
these colonisations which have carried the Czar's flag
so far, are made by men of old patriarchal customs.
The father has himself a highly centralised au-
thority; he teaches and would enforce the tradition
of loyalty to the Czar. Generations must pass be-
fore you could make a radical of him. Indeed he
might be expected to indefinitely propagate Czar-
worshippers if it were not that the frontier ceases to
be frontier. It has its big towns, in time; and a
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