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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Hence I had an opportunity of seeing ourselves as others
see us.
M. Petrovsky had read the report of the Sweating Com-
mittee, our Factory Legislation Reports, accounts in our news-
papers of the strikes which continually occur. All this had
produced on his mind the impression that we were in a bad
way. Forty thousand men hold all the riches, and the rest of
the thirty-six millions were just ground down to the last penny.
This was his idea of the state of things in England ; and he
compared it with the condition of Russia. In Russia there was
no great gulf between rich and poor. Strikes, which he looked
upon as mild revolutions, were unknown, and all lived together
in peaceful contentment under the Czar.
When I found an intelligent Russian taking this distorted
view of the condition of England, and holding such optimistic
opinions of the state of Russia, it often struck me that perhaps
our own views of Russia were not always so true as they
might be.
But it was in his criticisms of Indian and Central Asian
affairs that I found M. Petrovsky most interesting, and, perhaps,
more sound. One of the points upon which he was very
insistent was our treatment of the natives. He thought that
we held ourselves too much aloof from them, and that we were
too cold and haughty. Here, I think, we must plead guilty ;
though if we had the faculty of getting on closer terms with
those whom we rule, in addition to our other good qualities, we
should be well-nigh perfect. When Englishmen are working
hard together with natives, as on active service in the field, for
instance, or surveying or exploring, the two nationalities become
very firmly attached to each other. But ordinarily an English-
man finds great difficulty in "letting himself out" to strangers
of any description. Very few, indeed, have that genial manner
which draws people together. But as soon as the Englishman
in India gets out of his wretched office, and away from all the
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