"As to the next, Is there anybody who has not thought himself that the present war, in which all parties in Russia have risen unanimously against the common enemy, will render a return to the autocracy of old materially impossible?

And this opposition of temperament is likely to be deeper and more enduring than the sympathy of the one autocracy with the other.

MOST RIGID AUTOCRACY IN THE WORLD OVERTHROWN RUSSIA REJOICES "Mama! Mama!

She has been so attacked because she has been the principal guardian of liberal and democratic civilization against Central European autocracy on the continent of Europe.

For Russia, however, the War was of the people, rather than of the autocracy at the top, and one saw that Russia would emerge from the War changed and purified.

2. The replacement of personal tyrannies and autocracies by written constitutions and laws passed by elected parliaments.

This internecine strife of free communities was checked within a century by the imposition of a single military autocracy over them all, and Alexander the Great crowned his father Philip's work by winning new worlds for Hellenism from the Danube to the Ganges and from the Oxus to the Nile.

I could see it stretching through the space and silence of that vast land, its servants in every village, its paths and roads all leading back to the central citadel, its whispered orders flying through the air from district to district, its judgements, its rewards, its sins, its virtues, resting upon a basis of superstition and ignorance and apathy, the three sure friends of autocracy through history!

To forbid this and to require that all requests should come to him by the hands of the Ministers would be in truth to substitute ministerial autocracy for monarchical government.