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ideas. The whole policy in Russia which was contrary to the
democretic principles, which did not wish to take into consider-
ation the will of the peeple and its real interests, favored
rather the German aims than the interests of the Entente. Thus
it was in Finland and in Ukraine. Thus it will be in Romania
and in Poland. The monarchic restauration weuld have the same
result. That is only the logic of things. All that is reaction-
ary works for the autocracy, that is - for the King of Prussia.
There are many Russians even who do not understand that since
the fall of Czarism the Slav cause and the cause of democracy
is only one single cause. Everywhere the Slavs are oppressed or
under the menace of oppression and exploitation. Everywhere
they ought to unite under the flags of democracy. The trinity
of my preoccupations: The League of Nations, the Society of
Churches and the Panslav -democratic Alliance. All that depends
upon the victory of the Allies, which must be at the same time
material and moral. Especially the Slav United States. No one
has anything to fear from Panslavism. Whatever will happen, the
Russia of tomorrow cannot be founded upon the same principles
as the Russia of Ivan the Terrible or even of Peter the Great.
These two great currents, which were disputing for ancient Russia,
the Byzantine current with the pomp of the Court and churches,
and the current of Western culture have done their work of the
national education, or rather anti-national. It is the hour to
begin our own life, according to our psychological dispositions.
We must have a religious and moral organization, according to
the popular tastes. We must have the democratic discipline and
the moral education, similar to that which was given by Calvin
at Geneva and which has made the force of the English Puritans
and of Your ancesters.

All these thoughts preoccupy me much, but what would I be
able to do here for Russia? I am writing: "The Principles of the
Christian Life" for the Russian people, a companion to the
"Christian Institution" of J. Calvin. But under the st0rm which

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