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It's the one thing that's natural and practicable in Russia.... I won't... I won't," he cried out suddenly, "I'm not referring to that not a word on delicate subjects. Good-bye, though, you look rather green." "I'm feverish." "I can well believe it; you should go to bed. By the way, there are Skoptsi here in the neighbourhood they're curious people... of that later, though.
In one of the best known of these sects the Skoptsi, or Eunuchs fanaticism has led to physical mutilation. Sects which pay little or no attention to Scripture, and derive their doctrine from the supposed inspiration of their living teachers. Sects which believe in the re-incarnation of Christ. Sects which confound religion with nervous excitement, and are more or less erotic in their character.
The region of the Lower Yenesei contains many exiles whom the government desired to remove far from the centers of population. These include political and criminal prisoners, whose offences are of a high grade, together with the members of a certain religious order, known as "The Skoptsi." The latter class is particularly obnoxious on account of its practice of mutilation.
The religions are almost equally numerous. The statistics speak of Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Gregorians, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, Mennonites, Separatists, Pietists, Karaim Jews, Talmudists, Mahometans, and numerous Russian sects, such as the Molokanye and the Skoptsi or Eunuchs. America herself could scarcely show a more motley list in her statistics of population.
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