In Russia, however, things are managed differently.

The poor man is under the heel of the rich.
Some day there will be in Russia a Terror, but not yet.

Some day the moujik will erect unto himself a rough sort of a guillotine, but not in our day.

Perhaps some of us who are young men now may dimly read in our dotage of a great upheaval beside which the Terror of France will be tame and uneventful.

Who can tell?
When a country begins to grow, its mental development is often startlingly rapid.
But we have to do with Russia of to-day, and the village of Osterno in the Government of Tver.