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unimportant to the most fundamental qualities which
he can trace.
He is, very likely, first struck by the way in which the
horses are harnessed to the carriages. In no other place
is this done as here; in no other country are three horses
used with one carriage in so stylish a manner. It is no
slight or common sense of beauty which prompted this.
In the next place, there is a very striking originality in all
kinds of manual labor. This is seen in the patterns of
embroidery (also well known here from the Russian
embroidered handkerchiefs), in the harmony of bright colors
which characterize all Russian ornamentation and
decoration, from the ancient manuscripts down to the
beautiful enamel in gold and silver of this present day, and,
finally, in the style of architecture, which, although it is
a composite of Byzantine and Mongolian, Hindoo and
Persian, Gothic and Renaissance, still has obtained a
marked national character as the embodiment of the
Russian-Greek Church.
In the next place, this people have an original
conception in their civil relations, the so-called mir, a
municipality whose bond of union is home rule and common
ownership of the soil.
Russia is primarily and in its very essence a
patriarchal state, a state where the father has the authority
and the children are in a condition of equality with one
another. As a result of a development ordained by fate,
Russia has become a bureaucratic state, where official
power has destroyed all spontaneous and natural growth
in the relations of public life. Nevertheless, the family,
the municipality, and the state in Russia are three
organisms, constructed on entirely homogeneous principles, but
moving in different spheres. The great Russian family
is not restricted to parents and children; it includes
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