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they had any other aim, he would deny to you and your
accomplices the possession of common-sense).
“Houses are demolished, windows smashed, furniture and
tools hacked to pieces, izbas are filled with smoke and water in
order to still more torment their inmates, new zealots of ‘the
sign of the cross’ invent a new and original means of
compelling women to cross themselves...!
“At the judicial investigation of the matter, the lowest tools
will, no doubt, alone be found guilty, just as in all railroad
accidents the watchmen always are the guilty parties. But
who are they who incite these blind tools?
“In the village of Pavlovka, in the district of Soomi, a police
officer, accompanied by a dean and two priests, belonging to
those parts, rebuked the peasants at a public meeting for
tolerating Stundists among them. ‘In other places of Russia,’
they said, ‘such people are torn in pieces,’ probably alluding to
the government of Kiev, and wishing to evoke the same
disorders in their district as have occurred in the volost of
Babinjetzkaja. Is not this to incite—to speak about ‘tearing
to pieces,’ the Stundists in their midst, as is done in other
places?
“Happily the community of Pavlovka, thanks to the
awakening faith in the teachings of Christ, is no longer a suitable
soil for such seed. Otherwise the Orthodox zealots would here,
too, have been able to act in the same spirit as at Kiev.
“If it be denied that the atrocities on the volost of
Babinjetzkaja have been committed through incitement, the following
question arises: Where, then, were the spiritual shepherds of
the same volost while these lowest ‘servants of justice’
committed their barbarities, which continued, not for one or two
days, but for several months? Where, then, were the chiefs of
the police?—these spiritual shepherds and chiefs of police,
whose Argus eyes never overlook anything, not even the boiled
chickens in the peasant’s pot during Lent, and whose talons
remove with striking success ‘this evil’ (i.e., the chicken) from
the peasants’ homes.
“These lowest of the blind tools of the police and priests will,
no doubt, be punished, but the instigators? The hand of the
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