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194 archy, and only lack a candidate who would like, as of old, to "love" and to "worship" the mob of one hundred and forty millions of men grown savage, hungry, evil, lascivious, and lazy.

The Homeric task of saving the population of Russia, the dire need of transforming it, of educating it morally, of teaching it how to work, of awakening its cultural instincts anew, will be left as heritage by the Red Flag of Bolshevism or the Black Flag of Anarchy to the civilised world.