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 of the latest methods, there is no reason why an intensive output should not be achieved if Russian workmen are technically and morally educated up to it. It is therefore rather in the question of industrial education than in that of the reduction of wages that the economic future of the country seems to lie.

Russian workmen had early to look to the question of regulating and organizing the new power that they had just acquired. Their first claims were out of all proportions. They were thereafter discussed by deliber- ative assemblies, and presented by chosen delegates. These were delegates elected by the workmen, and who were charged to supervise the carrying out or help in starting these reforms.

The result is a series of representative institutions, or small industrial parliaments. We know, moreover, that though Russia will be without a Central Parliament until the Constituent Assembly meets, she