But these things have not established themselves either in France or anywhere else.

What has been established is not Free Trade or Free Love, but Freedom; and it is nowhere so patriotic or so domestic as in the country from which it came.

The poor men of France have not loved the land less because they have shared it.
Even the patricians are patriots; and if some honest Royalists or aristocrats are still saying that democracy cannot organise and cannot obey, they are none the less organised by it and obeying it, nobly living or splendidly dead for it, along the line from Switzerland to the sea.
But for Austria, and even more for Russia, there was this to be said; that the French Republican ideal was incomplete, and that they possessed, in a corrupt but still positive and often popular sense, what was needed to complete it.

The Czar was not democratic, but he was humanitarian.

He was a Christian Pacifist; there is something of the Tolstoyan in every Russian.