hatred for people of non-Russian
birth, and our co-citizens are fully aware of it. They know that their
disabilities are a burden to ourselves.

The removal of the Jewish disabilities is most imperatively dictated
to us also by our dignity as a body politic. The name of Russian
subject must be respected within our country, for otherwise the
civilised world will not grow accustomed to respect Russia. Our
country is feared for its military might and loved for the fine
qualities of its people, but it will be respected only when it becomes
a land of free men.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Several words here are crossed out by Russian
censorship.--Translator's Note.

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ON NATIONALISM

_Vladimir Sereyevich Solovyov is known to the world as the
noblest and the most profound of Russian thinkers. The author of
a large number of philosophical and theological treatises, he is
also responsible for a slender volume of exquisite poems and a
series of publicistic works, wherein the cause of progress is
vigorously upheld. Solovyov was born in 1853 and died in 1900._

ON NATIONALISM

A speech delivered by Vladimir Solovyov at a University Dinner on
February 8th, 1890

The dominating idea of the present time is the national idea. Of
course, there is nothing bad about this. But the national idea as well
as any other, can be very differently interpreted. The conception of
nationalism which is very popular in our country reminds one of the
famous answer made by a Hottentot to a missionary, who asked him
whether he knows the difference between good and bad. "Sure I know,"
retorted the Hottentot. "Good--is when I steal other people's cattle
and wives, and bad--when my own are stolen." In a like manner, many of
our nationalists praise the love for their people and brand other
people's patriotism as treason.

In spite of the wide diffusion of this view, I persist in my belief
that the Russian national idea cannot be based on a Hottentot-like
morality, that it cannot exclude the principles of justice and
all-human solidarity. It is time that we should see the realisation of
the true Russian idea and of all that it implies, namely: Poland's
autonomy, Jewish equal rights and the untrammelled development of all
the nationalities that people the Russian Empire.

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CONCERNING THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE JEWS

_Count Ivan Iva