Governments hate each other; the nations are only ignorant; and how should they not be led into error, by a religion entirely false, which is presented to them alongside the Gospel the religion of carnage; of hatred of the races; of brutal force; of the apotheosis of colours; of that limited and inhuman virtue, which already the first Christians took for a vice, and to which the last cling so much, in order to betray the peoplesa patriotic egotism. The Sclavonian world, little familiar with the aristocratic point of honour, much more peasant-like than chivalrous, will be the first to yield, and extend its hand to the elder peoples, like the Greek tyrant, who was so much moved by the two friends of Syracuse, that he stayed the arm of the executioner, and asked for the privilege of being admitted as the third in their union. "So rehmet auch mich zum Gencssen an, Ich sey, gewährt mir de Bute, This part of the third suits admirably the impressionable, acceptive, Sciavonian world, which sympathizes with its two elders, which loses itself in the plains spread out without fccters; this world of "laisser Ler," less determined less fixed, which is not parceled out, either by mountains, or by menfacile Tactices. It is jus dat I ecosider the Sure of the Scavening werd. This is however, a repection of what I have sad sace 1948. Che word more before I dose. Eaccen is the vague and confused ideal of the Russian people, is the realization and the logical development of its rudimentary institutions. Every one can conclude the probable consequences of this. CHAPTER VIII. Petersburgh again-A Commissioner of Police Officiating as Valet de Chambre-The Chief of the Police, Kakoschkin-Disorder in Order-Dubelt again-The Passport. SOME months previous to my father's death, Count Orloff was nominated to Benkendorf's place. I then wrote to Madame Scherebzoff, if she could not procure me a passport for abroad, or a permission for me to come to Petersburgh, and try to get it. Madame Scherebzoff answered that the second would be easy; and a few days afterwards, I got from Orloff the Imperial permission to come to Petersburgh for some time, for the purpose of arranging my affairs. My father's illness, his death, the real arrangement of affairs, and some months in the country, detained me until winter. Towards the end of November, I set off for Petersburgh, after having presented a petition to the Governor-General to let me have a passport. I knew that he could not grant it, because I was still under the strict surveillance of the police. I only wished that he should send my request to Petersburgh. The day of my departure, I sent in the morning to the police to take a card of permission for leaving Moscow; but instead of the card, a policeman came to say that there was a difficulty, and would come himself to see me. He came, indeed, and asked to speak to me confidentially, revealing to me, with a mysterious air, a novelty, that five years since, I had been forbidden to come to Petersburgh, |