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196 we have not even arranged them. Compared with its predecessor, the Russian Revolution of 1905 seems like one of those French plays which a resourceful stage manager adapts to the Russian stage. The names and places, the dresses and local colouring are alone changed. The characters are identical, and the plot is hurrying through the same thrilling episodes to the same dénouement. It seems as if we might accuse the Muse of History of plagiarizing herself, as if Fate had exhausted her possibilities, or as if she wanted to teach us the great moral lesson that mankind, untaught by the sufferings and the catastrophes of previous generations, shall be ever doomed to repeat the same blunders and the same crimes.

II. The Differences it then be true that the Slav people, so powerful in their literature and in their imaginative art, so original in their temperament, as soon as they apply themselves to political action are only capable of fitful impulses, and unable to strike out a path of their own? Would it be true that 180,000,000 of Russia people are only to be like puppets in the hands of a few thousand bureaucrats or a few hundred