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Intelligentsia, bourgeoisie, and proletariate are all products of the same forces, all belong to the same family; they are westernised Russians; they have passed from the fourteenth to the twentieth century at one stride, and the violent transition has cut them completely adrift from tradition and from all moral and religious standards; books, commerce, and industry, the three boasted instruments of our civilisation, have not civilised such Russians, they have de-civilised them.
It does not much express itself in words, but sometimes, in intimate discussion, one is privileged to catch a glimpse of the inner fires. They burn hotly. 'We do not mean to be de-civilised, said the first man with whom I talked about it. That was the answer throughout the keynote and the explanation. Otherwise the Canadians are as human as the rest of us to evade or deny a plain issue.
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