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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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big town that is vigorous—not a Rome of the second
century, or an Antioch—is a favouring environment
for the liberty germ. And such movements as may
hereinafter begin in Siberian towns will have, if not
too radical, a support from the farming class which,
in Russia proper, is almost wholly lacking. There
the peasantry is a black mass in which the town-
lighted fire must burn slowly; it is a mass of coagu-
lated ignorance and superstition. And it is moulded
by the old landlord class, who are not in any coun-
try good revolutionists. In the new Russia there
are more settlers who own their lands—they are in
conditions which encourage wide-awakefulness; and
though the central Government endeavours to con-
trol everywhere the consumption of that dangerous
drug, education, yet it cannot wholly refuse satis-
faction to a strong appetite prevailing in a great
distant province.
The cause of Reform in Russia will, then, I think,
be something like this: In European Russia, vio-
lent explosions in cities, violently repressed by the
dull strength of the moujik; in Asiatic Russia, stub-
born resistance against class privilege and against
official tyranny of the irritating sort; finally, steady
demand for moderate reform in the direction of
local (provincial) representative government, freed
from bureaucratic veto-power, which now so largely
stultifies the action of various elective bodies in
Russia. Indeed it is not difficult to imagine these
eastern provinces as being the seats of progressive,
almost self-governing states, long before it will seem
possible to yield reasonable quantities of reform to
the older communities, made up as they are of a
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