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CHAPTER XI. I had finished this writing, when news came
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of the destruction of six hundred innocent lives opposite Port Arthur.
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It would seem that the useless suffering and death of
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these unfortunate, deluded men, who have needlessly and so dreadfully perished,
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ought to disabuse those who were the cause of this destruction.
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I am not alluding to Makarov and other officers. All
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these men knew what they were doing, and wherefore, and
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they voluntarily, for personal advantage, for ambition, did as they did,
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disguising themselves in pretended patriotism, a pretense not condemned merely
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because it is universal. I allude rather to those unfortunate
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men drawn from all parts of Russia, who, by the
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help of religious fraud and under fear of punishment, have
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been torn from an honest, reasonable, useful, laborious family life,
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driven to the other end of the world, placed on
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a cruel, senseless machine for slaughter, and torn to bits,
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drowned along with this stupid machine in a distant sea.
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without any need or any possibility of advantage from all
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their privations, efforts and sufferings, or from the death which
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overtook them. In 1830, during the Polish war, the adjutant Wileczynski,
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sent to St. Petersburg by Klopitsky, in a conversation held
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in French with Dybich, an answer to the latter's demand
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that the Russian troops should enter Poland, and said to him,
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Monsieur le Maréchal, I think that in that case it
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will be quite impossible for the Polish nation to accept
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this manifesto. Believe me, the Emperor will make no further concessions.
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Then I foresee that unhappily there will be war, that
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much blood will be shed, there will be many unfortunate victims.
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Do not think so. At most there will be ten
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thousand who will perish on both sides, and that is all,
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said Dibich in his German accent. quite confident that he,
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together with another man as cruel and foreign to Russia
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and Polish life as he was himself, Nicholas I, had
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the right to condemn or not to condemn to death
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ten or a hundred thousand Russians and Poles. One hardly
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believes that this could have been. So senseless and dreadful
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is it. And yet it was. Sixty thousand maintainers of
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their families lost their lives owing to the will of
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those men, and now the same thing is taking place.
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In order not to let the Japanese into Manchuria, and
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to expel them from Korea, not ten thousand, but fifty
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and more thousand will, according to all probability, be necessary.
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I do not know whether Nicholas II and Kurobatkin say
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like Dibich in so many words that Not more than 50,000
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lives will be necessary for this on the Russian side alone,
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only and only that. But they think it. They cannot
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but think it, because the work they are doing speaks
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for itself. That ceaseless stream of unfortunate, deluded Russian peasants,
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now being transported by thousands to the Far East, these
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are those same not more than 50,000 live Russian men
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whom Nicholas Romanov and Alexis Kuropatkin have decided they may
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get killed, and who will be killed, in support of
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those stupidities, robberies, and every kind of abomination which were
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accomplished in China and Korea, by immoral, ambitious men, now
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sitting peacefully in their palaces, and expecting new glory, and
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new advantage, and profit, from the slaughter of these fifty
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thousand unfortunate, defrauded Russian working men, guilty of nothing, and
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gaining nothing by their sufferings and death. For other people's land,
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to which the Russians have no right, which has been
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criminally seized from its legitimate owners, and which, in reality,
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is not even necessary to the Russians, and also for
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certain dark dealings by speculators, who in Korea wish to
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gain money out of other people's forests. Many millions of
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money are spent, that is, a great part of the
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labour of the whole of the Russian people. While the
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future generations of this people are bound by debts, its
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best workmen are withdrawn from labour, and scores of thousands
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of its sons are mercilessly doomed to death. And the
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destruction of these unfortunate men is already begun. More than this,
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the war is being managed by those who have hatched
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it so badly, so negligently. All is so unexpected, so unprepared, that,
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as one paper admits, Russia's chief chance of success lies
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in the fact that it possesses inexhaustible human material. It
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is upon this that those rely, who send to death
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scores of thousands of Russian men. It is frankly said
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that the regrettable reverses of our fleet must be compensated
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on the land. In plain language this means that if
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the authorities have badly directed things on sea, and by
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their negligence have destroyed not only the nation's millions, but
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thousands of lives, we can make it up by condemning
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to death on land several more scores of thousands. When
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crawling locusts cross rivers, it happens that the lower layers
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are drowned until from the bodies of the drowned is
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formed a bridge over which the upper ranks can pass.
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In the same way are the Russian people being disposed of.
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Thus the first lower layer is already beginning to drown,
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indicating the way to other thousands who will all likewise perish.
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And are the originators, directors and supporters of this dreadful
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work beginning to understand their sin, their crime. Not in
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the least, they are persuaded that they have fulfilled and
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are fulfilling their duty, and they are proud of their activity.
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People speak of the loss of the brave Makarov, who,
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as all agree, was able to kill men very cleverly.
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They deplore the loss of a drowned excellent machine of slaughter,
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which had cost so many millions of roubles. They discuss
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the question of how to find another murderer as capable
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as the poor benighted Makarov. They invent new, still more
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efficacious tools of slaughter. And all the guilty men engaged
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in this dreadful work, from the Tsar to the humblest journalist,
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all with one voice call for new insanities, new cruelties,
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for the increase of brutality and hatred of one's fellow men. Quote, Makarov,
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he is not the only man in Russia, and every
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admiral placed in his position will follow in his steps
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and will continue the plan and the idea of Makarov,
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who has nobly perished in the strife, writes the novel
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of Remia. Let us earnestly pray God for those who
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have laid down their lives for the sacred fatherland, without
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doubting for one moment that the fatherland will give us
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new sons and equally virtuous for the further struggle, and
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will find in them an inexhaustible store of strength for
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a worthy completion of the work, writes the St. Petersburg Viedomosti.
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A ripe nation will draw no other conclusion from the defeat,
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however unprecedented, than that we should continue, develop, and conclude
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the strife. Therefore let us find in ourselves new strength,
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new heroes of the spirit will arise, writes the Ross,
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and so forth. So murder and every kind of crime
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go on with greater fury. People enthusiastically admire the martial
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spirit of the volunteers who, having come unexpectedly upon fifty
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of their fellow men, slay all of them, or take
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possession of a village and slaughter all its population, or
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hang or shoot those accused of being spies, that is,
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of doing the very same thing which is regarded as
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indispensable and is constantly done on our side. News about
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these crimes is reported in pompous telegrams to their chief director,
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the Tsar, who, in return, sends to his virtuous troops
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his blessing on the continuation of such deeds. Is it
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not evident that, if there be a salvation from this position,
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it is only one, that one which Jesus teaches. Seek
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ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, that
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which is within you, and all the rest, that is,
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all that practical welfare toward which man is striving, will
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of itself be realized. Such is the law of life.
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Practical welfare is attained not when man strives toward this
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practical welfare. Such striving, on the contrary, for the most
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part removes man from the attainment of what he seeks.
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But only when man, not thinking of the attainment of
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practical welfare, strives toward the most perfect fulfillment of that
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which before God before the source and law of his life,
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he regards as right. Then only, incidentally, is practical welfare
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also attained. So that the true salvation of men is
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only one thing, the fulfilment of the will of God
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by each individual man within himself, that is, in that
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portion of the universe which alone is subject to his power.
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In this is the chief, the only, destiny and duty
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of every individual man, and at the same time this
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is the only means by which every individual man can
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influence others, and therefore to this and to this only
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should all the efforts of every man be directed. May 2nd,
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CHAPTER XI. I had finished this writing, when news came
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of the destruction of six hundred innocent lives opposite Port Arthur.
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It would seem that the useless suffering and death of
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these unfortunate, deluded men, who have needlessly and so dreadfully perished,
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ought to disabuse those who were the cause of this destruction.
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I am not alluding to Makarov and other officers. All
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these men knew what they were doing, and wherefore, and
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they voluntarily, for personal advantage, for ambition, did as they did,
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disguising themselves in pretended patriotism, a pretense not condemned merely
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because it is universal. I allude rather to those unfortunate
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men drawn from all parts of Russia, who, by the
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help of religious fraud and under fear of punishment, have
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been torn from an honest, reasonable, useful, laborious family life,
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driven to the other end of the world, placed on
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a cruel, senseless machine for slaughter, and torn to bits,
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drowned along with this stupid machine in a distant sea.
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without any need or any possibility of advantage from all
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their privations, efforts and sufferings, or from the death which
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overtook them. In 1830, during the Polish war, the adjutant Wileczynski,
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sent to St. Petersburg by Klopitsky, in a conversation held
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in French with Dybich, an answer to the latter's demand
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that the Russian troops should enter Poland, and said to him,
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Monsieur le Maréchal, I think that in that case it
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will be quite impossible for the Polish nation to accept
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this manifesto. Believe me, the Emperor will make no further concessions.
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Then I foresee that unhappily there will be war, that
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much blood will be shed, there will be many unfortunate victims.
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Do not think so. At most there will be ten
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thousand who will perish on both sides, and that is all,
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said Dibich in his German accent. quite confident that he,
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together with another man as cruel and foreign to Russia
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and Polish life as he was himself, Nicholas I, had
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the right to condemn or not to condemn to death
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ten or a hundred thousand Russians and Poles. One hardly
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believes that this could have been. So senseless and dreadful
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is it. And yet it was. Sixty thousand maintainers of
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their families lost their lives owing to the will of
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those men, and now the same thing is taking place.
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In order not to let the Japanese into Manchuria, and
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to expel them from Korea, not ten thousand, but fifty
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and more thousand will, according to all probability, be necessary.
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I do not know whether Nicholas II and Kurobatkin say
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like Dibich in so many words that Not more than 50,000
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lives will be necessary for this on the Russian side alone,
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only and only that. But they think it. They cannot
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but think it, because the work they are doing speaks
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for itself. That ceaseless stream of unfortunate, deluded Russian peasants,
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now being transported by thousands to the Far East, these
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are those same not more than 50,000 live Russian men
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whom Nicholas Romanov and Alexis Kuropatkin have decided they may
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get killed, and who will be killed, in support of
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those stupidities, robberies, and every kind of abomination which were
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accomplished in China and Korea, by immoral, ambitious men, now
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sitting peacefully in their palaces, and expecting new glory, and
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new advantage, and profit, from the slaughter of these fifty
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thousand unfortunate, defrauded Russian working men, guilty of nothing, and
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gaining nothing by their sufferings and death. For other people's land,
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to which the Russians have no right, which has been
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criminally seized from its legitimate owners, and which, in reality,
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is not even necessary to the Russians, and also for
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certain dark dealings by speculators, who in Korea wish to
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gain money out of other people's forests. Many millions of
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money are spent, that is, a great part of the
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labour of the whole of the Russian people. While the
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future generations of this people are bound by debts, its
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best workmen are withdrawn from labour, and scores of thousands
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of its sons are mercilessly doomed to death. And the
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destruction of these unfortunate men is already begun. More than this,
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the war is being managed by those who have hatched
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it so badly, so negligently. All is so unexpected, so unprepared, that,
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as one paper admits, Russia's chief chance of success lies
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in the fact that it possesses inexhaustible human material. It
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is upon this that those rely, who send to death
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scores of thousands of Russian men. It is frankly said
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that the regrettable reverses of our fleet must be compensated
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on the land. In plain language this means that if
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the authorities have badly directed things on sea, and by
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their negligence have destroyed not only the nation's millions, but
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thousands of lives, we can make it up by condemning
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to death on land several more scores of thousands. When
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crawling locusts cross rivers, it happens that the lower layers
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are drowned until from the bodies of the drowned is
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formed a bridge over which the upper ranks can pass.
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In the same way are the Russian people being disposed of.
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Thus the first lower layer is already beginning to drown,
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indicating the way to other thousands who will all likewise perish.
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And are the originators, directors and supporters of this dreadful
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work beginning to understand their sin, their crime. Not in
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the least, they are persuaded that they have fulfilled and
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are fulfilling their duty, and they are proud of their activity.
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People speak of the loss of the brave Makarov, who,
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as all agree, was able to kill men very cleverly.
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They deplore the loss of a drowned excellent machine of slaughter,
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which had cost so many millions of roubles. They discuss
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the question of how to find another murderer as capable
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as the poor benighted Makarov. They invent new, still more
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efficacious tools of slaughter. And all the guilty men engaged
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in this dreadful work, from the Tsar to the humblest journalist,
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all with one voice call for new insanities, new cruelties,
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for the increase of brutality and hatred of one's fellow men. Quote, Makarov,
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he is not the only man in Russia, and every
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admiral placed in his position will follow in his steps
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and will continue the plan and the idea of Makarov,
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who has nobly perished in the strife, writes the novel
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of Remia. Let us earnestly pray God for those who
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have laid down their lives for the sacred fatherland, without
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doubting for one moment that the fatherland will give us
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new sons and equally virtuous for the further struggle, and
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will find in them an inexhaustible store of strength for
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a worthy completion of the work, writes the St. Petersburg Viedomosti.
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A ripe nation will draw no other conclusion from the defeat,
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however unprecedented, than that we should continue, develop, and conclude
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the strife. Therefore let us find in ourselves new strength,
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new heroes of the spirit will arise, writes the Ross,
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and so forth. So murder and every kind of crime
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go on with greater fury. People enthusiastically admire the martial
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spirit of the volunteers who, having come unexpectedly upon fifty
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of their fellow men, slay all of them, or take
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possession of a village and slaughter all its population, or
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hang or shoot those accused of being spies, that is,
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of doing the very same thing which is regarded as
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indispensable and is constantly done on our side. News about
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these crimes is reported in pompous telegrams to their chief director,
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the Tsar, who, in return, sends to his virtuous troops
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his blessing on the continuation of such deeds. Is it
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not evident that, if there be a salvation from this position,
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it is only one, that one which Jesus teaches. Seek
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ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, that
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which is within you, and all the rest, that is,
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all that practical welfare toward which man is striving, will
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of itself be realized. Such is the law of life.
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Practical welfare is attained not when man strives toward this
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practical welfare. Such striving, on the contrary, for the most
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part removes man from the attainment of what he seeks.
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But only when man, not thinking of the attainment of
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practical welfare, strives toward the most perfect fulfillment of that
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which before God before the source and law of his life,
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he regards as right. Then only, incidentally, is practical welfare
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also attained. So that the true salvation of men is
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only one thing, the fulfilment of the will of God
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by each individual man within himself, that is, in that
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portion of the universe which alone is subject to his power.
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In this is the chief, the only, destiny and duty
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of every individual man, and at the same time this
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is the only means by which every individual man can
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influence others, and therefore to this and to this only
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should all the efforts of every man be directed. May 2nd,
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