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Rh department, not as in France, a state within the State: imperium in imperio. No religious passions will be stirred, for the hatred against the Jew is economic and racial, not religious.

In the second place, there can be no class war, for the simple reason that in Russia the aristocracy as a class has ceased to exist. A few noble families who have given up the principle of primogeniture, three hundred princes Obolenski, four hundred princes Troubetzkoy, five hundred princes Galitzin, most of whom are poor and have lost their landed property, do not form an Estate of the Empire. And finally, there cannot be in Russia any foreign intervention. No doubt the Russian Revolution has its émigrés, its exiles, mostly journalists and Jews or Poles, who are stirring up European opinion against the Russian Government. But Europe will interfere neither for nor against the revolution. British statesmen may have expressed in 1905 their Platonic sympathies for the dissolved Duma. English newspapers may collect subscriptions or send the "moral" support of the British intellectuals to their brethren in Russia. But no democratic Burke will arise to preach the crusade of nations against kings, as Burke once arose to preach the