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PROSPECTS OF REGENERATION
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cannot last, but out of it must arise a mode of life and a
form of political structure which will guarantee her previous
industrial and commercial potentialities.
At present Russia offers a spectacle of turmoil not unlike
that which followed the French Revolution, when one of the
diplomatists who was accredited to Royal France made the
remark : "La France a disparu de la carte politique de
l’Europe, c’est un vide," to which a distinguished Frenchman
made reply : " Oui, c’est un vide, mais ce vide est un
volcan ! " And so it was. France emerged from that
volcano stronger than she was before. Mutatis mutandis,
the same may be said of Russia.
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