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CHAPTER XVII.
IS THERE A REMEDY?
A Conversation—A Russian’s Views—The Fatal Breach—True Division of
Labour—Healthful Development—Paramount Claims of Life—A
Revolution Inevitable—“Go to the People.”
Can anything be done? is the question that must be
uppermost in the minds of those who have read the preceding pages
and in any degree formed a living conception of the state of
things there depicted. It is not for us to give an answer, but
we may fitly close with a presentation of the views of many
Russians themselves as to the right way out of the evil
conditions that sap the life of that unhappy country. The
conversation here given is fictitious only in that the real names
of the participants are withheld, and many things are brought
together which were said at different times. Otherwise, the
substance is a true record, and the occasion is historical and
not imaginary.
“The essential cause of the general and constant misery
among the masses,” said our friend Kudrin, filling a glass with
tea from the boiling samovar, “is the unnatural gulf that
yawns between the so-called ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ classes.” He
spoke in his usual quiet manner, with a depth of conviction
that was born of wide experience, extending over many years,
both among the peasants and in “society.” Of aristocratic
birth and education, he had, as a young man, moved in the
highest circles, but had afterwards abandoned both rank and
property, and “gone to the people,” among whom he had lived
a long time, working hard to help them both in material and
moral things. My other companion in the low and damp izba,
where we had gathered round the samovar at the close of a
day’s relief work among the famine-stricken, was a jovial
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