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organisation and methods are still in use in ordinary civil
matters. There is the same security, the same forms
of justice and law, civil and criminal, as in other
civilised countries. And the ordinary Finnish official
holds to the law and legal methods as closely as his
foreign confrère, the whole class being remarkable for
its honesty, and bribery being almost unknown. The
corruption prevailing in some other countries,
backward in civilisation and in the maintenance of legality
and public morals — a corruption which undermines
law and makes good order next to impossible — is
unknown in Finland. In proportion to the force of
such ideas about individual and social morality, the
lack of security in public law, and the doubt whether
it is the law which is supreme or personal arbitrary
will, is the more keenly felt. Already the danger which
exists and the anxiety which is felt about it are
burdens on the whole of social life, the material as
well as the intellectual.
Our study has shown where the Finnish people
stand in regard to material development. We have
seen the great progress made, and further that which
is designed; but we have also seen enough to know that
the country is still far from being a rich country. In
a report of the committee for the drafting of Bills we
find a calculation of the national capital about the
year 1890. The total amount of private fortunes
was then calculated at about 2200 million marks, or
2396 millions without deduction of 181 millions of
debts due from one person to another. The items
were 1464 millions of real estate, 36 millions in
merchant ships (one ton reckoned as worth 500 marks
for the steamers, 100 marks for the sailing ships),
164 millions as the value of domestic animals, 56
millions for the fixtures of the farmers, 311 millions
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