THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1374, 16 March 1915, Page 4

THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA.

Those who read “The Day of the Saxon,” by General Horaer Tea, of the United States, may remember a striking passage that well summed up the Russian spirit. “Russia,” it said, “in the course of her progress troubles herself as little about her losses in war as the Russian native about the wilderness created by her winter. In the eighteenth century this Empire put 4,910,000 troops iu the fields; of these 1,380,000 survived. In the nineteenth century the total number of troops on active service came to 4,900,000, and theirjosses to 1,4x0,000 ; and yet at the commencement of the eighteenth century Russia’s population only amounted to 12,000,000 and at the commencement of the nineteenth century to 38,000,000. The courage and determination exhibited in every Russian scheme of expansion during the sevententh century, and for 200 years, prove that Russia would never voluntarily abandon them. Hitherto these Russians have never jibbed, never hesitated. Without haste, and even after a reverse ever full of hope, sober after victory, never casting a glance at the ground wh.ch their battles have heaped with corpses, and their eyes firmlv fixed on that distant, hue definite, goal on which they were first directed.”

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