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sexual desires, lVx., iS:c." I would claim, on the contrary, 

 that bad as things are through the revolution, they would 

 have been still worse without one. Germany may boast 

 as much as she likes of her success with Russia, but can 

 she hold it?— I do not think so. Like a religious fanatic 

 in India, she lies over Russia as the fanatic lies over a bed 

 of sharp nails, and with a little patience, and much help 

 from her Allies, the Russian peasantry will recover them- 

 selves before it is too late, and, turning the apparent nails 

 into veritable bayonets, thrust them far into the vitals of 

 the fanatic that lies so heavily over her country, but if we 

 do not stand by and help, the nails themselves, instead of 

 turning into bayonets, will disappear and leave modern 

 Germany as well and comfortably embedded in Russia as 

 were the Germanic landowners before the upheaval. 



Those doubting this should turn to the March issue of 

 the Round Table and read the context of the following notes 

 from the section on " The Peoples of the Baltic Provinces 

 and Lithuania," as on p. 295, where we are told that, 

 " The most westerly Lithuanian tribes, the original Prus- 

 sians, are now almost extinct — just a few hundred of them 

 are left in'East Prussia, in villages on the Kurisches Haff." 

 They have perished in the struggle against the southern 

 branch of the Teutonic Knights of the Cross, the founders 

 and forerunners of the modern Prussian State. And yet 

 we have heard that, " wolf never eats wolf " — the old 

 Prussian tribes know better. Now it remains to be seen 

 to what extent we shall allow the descendent of these 

 wolves of the Cross to have further meals at the expense 

 of Lithuania. 



The Germans meanwhile have not had it all their own 

 way, but, the same as to-day, organized might was always 

 bound to win over disconnected and disorganized tribes 

 and races. The Round Table, p. 302, points out that " The 

 history of the Ests and Letts has been an endless struggle 

 against the German Baltic Barons. Nowhere in Europe 

 has serfdom been as ruthless as that imposed by the 

 German conquerors in the Baltic Provinces, a fact 

 admitted even by German historians. Only at times did 

 outside interference succeed in lightening a little the 

 burden of the serf population. . . . When in the reign 

 of Alexander I, the German Barons found it necessary to 

 admit a change in the legal position of their peasants, and 

 abolished serfdom in the Baltic Provinces, they declared 

 the entire land their private property, whereas everywhere 

 else in Eastern Europe, on the abolition of serfdom, a part 



