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women, who strive to make the great populace share in
the advanced ideas of the age, must educate and rely
upon. It is plain that the education will take time, and
the aid they are now able to find is of no account.
Two short dialogues of Turgenief are given below,
which, on account of the censor, were omitted from the
“Poems in Prose,” — entitled “The workman and the
man with the white hands.”
In the first, the workmen wonder at the stranger, and
reject his claim of being one of them, while they point
to their own working hands, which smell of filth and tar,
and to his delicate white hands: “What do they smell
of?” — “Smell, yourselves.” — “It is strange ! We
should say they smell of iron.” — “Yes, of iron. For
six whole years I have worn handcuffs on them.” —
“Why?” — “Because I thought of your happiness. I
wanted to make you poor fellows free, I rebelled against
your oppressors; on that account I was put in prison.” —
“Prison!” — “Yes.” — “Why were you rebellious?”
In the second dialogue, which occurred two years
later, the same workman speaks to another about the
young gentleman who once talked with them: “He is to
be hanged to-day; the order has come.” — “Has he been
rebelling again?” — “Yes — again.” — “Well, Dmitri,
don’t you believe we could get a piece of the rope he is
hanged by? They say it brings good luck to the
house.” — “Yes. Piotr, let us try.”
This, then, is the human material which the young men
and women who “go out among the people” try to
educate and elevate. They do it with an untiring, heroic
zeal, which is beyond all praise and without parallel in
any land. They leave relatives and friends, expose
themselves to cold and hunger, hatred and derision, scorn and
insult; they brave imprisonment, sickness and death,
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