A WONDER NATION.
Russia is indeed a. wonder nation to the world at large. In how many lights she lias .appeared and how utterly indifferent to criticism she has been. Holbrook Jackson, writer and essayist, not long ago painted a new picture of the Power of the North. ''One of these days,'' ho tolls us, "we shall know that her great courage, her eternal revolt, her savage determination and patience, have made the Russians the masters-people of civilisation. . Russia lias the spirit, to take great risks, and,to make great sacrifices. She has courage: courage in power and weakness, in viritue and vice, in ignorance, in knowledge, in illumination; she thrives on destruction like an admiral who sur- '. ives by burning his ship." And again : "Tragedy is her normal state. No other nation, as a nation, can love and hate like Russia. No other nation could bear such suffering with dry eyes, and with laughter. Her life to the outer world looks like an infinite succession of deaths yet of no people does the world exppct so
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 5 August 1914, Page 4
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176A WONDER NATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 89, 5 August 1914, Page 4
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