Slavonians to the other Indo-European Nations. 33 
another of the family of Japheth, enchained by those hordes of the 
wilderness. But the Czars have not rested satisfied with European 
aggression only, their armies are a few days' march from the frontiers 
of India, and have already wrested several fair provinces from 
Persia, and have just succeeded in exterminating the Circassians. 
It is the destiny of the Slavonians to guard the frontiers of the 
Indo-European race against the Turanian hordes. It was their 
destiny perhaps of old, when the Royal Scythians were barred in 
their Western career of conquest. In was their destiny when Poland 
and Ruthenia were the bulwarks of Latin and Greek Christendom, 
against the Pagan Northerns. It was their destiny when the Tartar 
hordes wasted Europe and Asia, till Henry of Silesia lay in the arms 
of victory on the field of Liegnitz. It was their destiny when 
Ladislaus of Poland fell before the terrible Amurath II. upon the 
plains of Warna. It was their destiny when Sobieski delivered 
Vienna and Europe from the Turks and Tartars. It is their 
destiny still, when after the recent heroic struggle, the corpse of the 
fallen Lelewel has hardly rotted on the battle field. The Poles and 
the Ruthenians will still fight against the old foes of Europe. It 
may be that the prophecy of the Muscovites, and of the First 
Napoleon (that Europe must fall before the Cossack) is no phantom ; 
that we Europeans have been weighed in the balances and found 
wanting ; that the next century may see the Uralian hordes make 
an equal advance to what they have done in the century now elapsed. 
It may be the will of the Most High that the Turanians shall 
dwell again in their ancient seats, that the Tartar hordes shall drink 
of the Seine and Ebro, that the rich lands of France and Germany 
must be wasted by the countrymen of Mouravieff. If it be so, 
depend on it, the Uralian hordes will have to pass over the bodies 
of the Slavonians, Where they have been placed they will die 
free men, or drive back those hordes to their lair. 
V, The literature of the Slavonians, although far more full than 
is commonly supposed, but little affects our estimate of their position 
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