This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...French invasion, it is scarcely to be doubted that it would have failed, if Napoleon had invoked in time the spell which fanaticism alone stood any chance of weakening. But how, by any misrepresentation, hope to render this feeling against Ruthenian co-religionaries, speaking an almost common language, --how raise it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...French invasion, it is scarcely to be doubted that it would have failed, if Napoleon had invoked in time the spell which fanaticism alone stood any chance of weakening. But how, by any misrepresentation, hope to render this feeling against Ruthenian co-religionaries, speaking an almost common language, --how raise it in the Ruthenian against the Sclavonic nations beyond, from whom he has derived his inspirations of independence? It is to the Sclavonic family beyond the Russian frontier, as well as to the influences likely to operate on the Ruthenian, and from the Ruthenian on the Muscovite, that the attention of the reader is now about to be directed. The popular opinion in England regards the Sclavonic race as either irrevocably gathered beneath the sceptre of the Tsars, or as already Russianised. Whilst yielding the tribute of its regret to the fate of Poland, it is prone to regard its fall as a misfortune beyond the power of man to remedy, and on which it is now idle to waste sympathies which may be thus diverted from some more useful channel. It turns hopelessly from the five millions in the kingdom of Poland, to the fifty millions of Sclavonians concentrated within the limits of Russia-Proper, with the conviction that nothing is to be expected now, except from time; when the whole of the corrupt mass into which this last remnant of a gallant people has been absorbed, shall have gradually purified itself, like stagnant waters, which at length from the very excess of their impurity, deposit by a natural process their turbid elements. As for such portions of Poland as are incorporated with Austria and Prussia, these feeble fragments are considered to have become long since reconciled to the paternal government of the one, and the liberal administration of ..
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