Thus may the declaration of Micah as to the requirements of Jehovah, the definition by St.James of "pure religion and undefiled," and, above all, the precepts and ideals of the blessed Founder of Christianity himself, be brought to bear more and more effectively on mankind.
I close this preface some days after its first lines were written.
The sun of spring has done its work on the Neva; the great river flows tranquilly on, a blessing and a joy; the mujiks are forgotten.

A.D.

W.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, ST.

PETERSBURG, April 14,1894.
P.S .-- Owing to a wish to give more thorough revision to some parts of my work, it has been withheld from the press until the present date.

A.D.
W.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N.Y., August 15, 1895.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION.
I.