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134 with the Slav, they will have to make this effort to meet him on his own linguistic ground. Hitherto, the educated Russian has taken the trouble to learn the European languages, but the time is coming when the European will be expected by the Russian to learn the Russian tongue. As Russian patriotism becomes more self-conscious and, therefore, more sensitive, as Russian culture becomes more self-supporting, there will be a complete change in the relative position of the languages of the world. For instance, the Russian, who neither loves nor admires the Teuton, must necessarily ask himself why he, possessing a more original and a more humane culture than that of the Teuton, should go out of his way to learn German and why he should not expect and compel the German to learn Russian!

And from his own point of view the Russian is quite right. There is no answer to his objections, and there is only one way out of the difficulty. If the coming generation wants to derive the fullest advantage of intellectual and moral intercourse with what promises to be the most original culture which the world has seen since the Renaissance, Europe will have to make the study of Russian a compulsory branch of the