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"I have heard that the members of that circle were Nihilists." "The club has not that name, but probably the members would not care to repudiate the title, or deny that they were Nihilists theoretically that is, if Nihilism means an absolute social and political overturning in order that something better may be built up.
Shall there be no more political parties, and shall we shatter the political machinery which, bad as it is, is far better than no machinery at all? Shall we embrace nihilism as our creed, because we have practical communism forced upon us as the consequence of jobbery, and the imposition of unjust taxes? No, let us rather learn the lesson of the Bridge.
They conspired against the life of civilization as if it were not better to be ruled by despots than assassins, as if a bad government were not better than none! The existence of Nihilism may be explained, though not extenuated. Can anyone estimate the effect upon a single human being to have known that a father, brother, son, sister, or wife has perished under the knout?
And while in this terror, the Czar and his official household instead of doing anything towards relieving the burdens under which the people groaned, and which drove them to these bitter acts of revenge and reprisal, took all means possible to bind their chains closer yet, and to stamp out Nihilism with an iron heel.
You are quite wrong, excellency, if you think that your presence will intimidate them; nothing intimidates them. Educated men, learned men even, are to be found among Nihilists; these go further, in that they are men of action. The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers.
NIHILISM. The accession of Alexander II., following on the rigid autocracy of Nicholas, had introduced a more lenient rule. The boon thus conferred, along with its advantages, brought with it hardship; for there were ways of oppression still open to the nobles, by which the emancipated class were made grievously to suffer.
If anything were required to reveal the bald wickedness of the creed of Nihilism, it was supplied by this aimless sacrifice of the one sovereign who had bestowed a colossal reform upon Russia. They had killed him, and had then marched unflinchingly to the gallows and that was all leaving others bound by solemn oaths to bring the same fate upon his successor.
Jon listened, bewildered, almost outraged by his father's words, behind which he felt a meaning that he could not reach. He didn't want to stamp on anything! "Nothing's the god of to-day," continued Jolyon; "we're back where the Russians were sixty years ago, when they started Nihilism." "No, Dad," cried Jon suddenly, "we only want to live, and we don't know how, because of the Past that's all!"
The number of questions asked by correspondents on the subject of the proper use of the familiar words lady and woman, and of the titles of married women, induces the reflection that the "woman" question is one which rivals in universal interest those of Nihilism, Irish rebellion, and the future presidency.
The reforms then instituted have been revoked, the men who were the leaders in these reforms have been exiled to Siberia. A period of reaction has set in: Despotism and Nihilism meet face to face. The entire nation is in chains. Russia during these troublous times presents a dreary picture.
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