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Excerpt from Creatures That Once Were Men
This hypothesis, like the hypothesis mentioned before it, is highly disputable, and is at best a suggestion. But there is one broad truth in the matter which may in any case be considered as established. A country like Russia has far more inherent capacity for producing revolution in revolutionists than any country of the type of England or America. Communities highly civilized and largely urban tend to a thing which is now called evolution, the most cautious and the most conservative of all social in¿uences. The loyal Russian obeys the Czar because he remembers the Czar and the Czar's im portance. The disloyal Russian frets against the Czar because he also remembers the Czar, and makes a note of the necessity of knifing him. But the loyal English man obeys the upper classes because he has forgotten that they are there. Their Operation has become to him like daylight, or gravitation, or any of the forces of na ture. And there are no disloyal Englishmen there are no English revolutionists, because the oligarchic man agement of England is so complete as to be invisible. The thing which can once get itself forgotten can make itself omnipotent.
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