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rears around, shall I be able to finish this gigantic work.

One will think me perhaps naive and my letter out of place.
put I firmly believe that Your great mind will discern between
the trifling and hindering correspondents and between those, who
are called or sent to create here, upon the earth a new life
and to transform all, following the words of God. You are one
of these men. But we must all work toward the same end to
bring near the realization of the Kingdom of sed, the sole au-
thentic and indisputable sovereign.

The misfortune of Russia is that we always lack men, such as
You had in your country in similar times. We must have heroes,
real patriots and men of genius, like Washington and Franklin,
who knew how to work for their country and to sacrifice everything
for her. With us, political men, the nobility and the intellect-
tuals follow the entirely opposite path. They are unwilling to
give up their petty interests, and they place all their hope in
foreign intervention against the people in order to reestablish
their privileges. I wish indeed for Japanese intervention to
finish this war. But her true and disinterested place is in
Turkey. There, at the Dardanelles is the Key of victory. There
is the only efficacious route to save Russia and the Slavs from
the Germanic yoke. Any other is only a palliative.

Russia will not be saved only by the peasants. The peasants
are the ones who have made Russia. The peasants are the ones who
always bear the burden of war and of peace. And whatever one
may say about their ignorance, they always understand better
then all the others the real situation and the real needs of
their country. And above all they love her, they love their
natal soil and they will not sell it. But scientific and techni-
cal assistance must be carried to them. They must be armed a-
gainst the enemies. It is necessary to lay the foundations of
the most formidable cooperative peasantry to raise up the eco-
nomic situation of the country. Ancient methods are devoted
to failure. The Germans can indeed be of that opinion in the

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