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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he liuts there are miserable gardens, and farther still the expanse of fields full of weedswhere groans the exhausted earth, incapable of bear-ing,—a nur.se deprived of all strength. Against thisbackground one sees the heavily laden peasant. It ishis lot to be oppressed. In order to breathe a littlemore freely, he at times oppresses others. Such is theRussian village. People move about in the hut.s, nearthe huts, and work in the fields. On their sodden, yel-lowish-dark faces there is the stamp of deep, dumbsorrow, and of resignation. No illuminating intelli-gence shines in their actions. The herd-like lifedestroys in them everything living,—it destroys ability,and subjects the individual to the instincts of the blindmasses. Accidents and habits hold sway, and blindinstincts triumph ; but there are no guiding principlesto direct the work. There Is no knowledge creative ofenterprise. Such is peasant labor. ihe wretched poverty of the peasantry, the LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. rat
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A RUSSIAN SOLDIER-PEASANTS LAST EVENING AT HOME WITH HIS FAMILY BEFORE JOIXIXG THE AR.MV. writer goes on to say, is rendered more oppressiveby the fearful sanitary, or, rather, unsanitary,conditions which prevail in the villages. Thesame applies also to the towns, where the condi-tion of factory labor is scarcely better than thatof the peasants. We find sanitary defects inour fatherland wherever we turn, says anotherwriter in the same journal. The sanitary condi-tions under which the factory employees live arefrequently in an awful state, and their evils aremultiplied by overcrowding. As to village life, it is like an aw^ful nightmare.The population is dying out in many places. Let us,for instance, consider the question of drinking-water,the contamination of which is widespread. The Volgaand its tributaries are covered with naphtha to such anextent that in some places the water is totally unfit foruse. Complaints concerning the contamination ofdrinking-water,—its bad taste, odor, et

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