Publisher's Synopsis
From time to time-more often as time goes on!-circumstances force the Russian author to remind his compatriots of certain indisputable, elementary truths. It is a very hard duty: -it is painfully awkward to speak to grown-up and literate people in this manner: "Ladies and gentlemen! We must be humane; humaneness is not only beautiful, but also advantageous to us. We must be just; justice is the foundation of culture. We must make our own the ideas of law and civil liberty: the usefulness of such an assimilation is clearly demonstrated by the high degree of civilisation reached by the Western countries, for instance, by England. "We must develop in ourselves a moral tidiness, and an aversion to all the manifestations of the brute principle in man, such as the wolfish, degrading hatred for people of other races. The hatred of the Jew is a beastlike, brute phenomenon; we must combat it in the interests of the quicker growth of social sentiments and social culture
