Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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MOSCOW 207 contact, as if a little of the life of all the millions who havefondled it had in some mysterious way passed into this massof bronze and made of it a sentient, responsive thing. Gazing almost directly at this shattered stillborn metaldome is the bronze image of a Tsar, whose useful life wastragically ended by the Nihilists twenty years ago. It is astrange fatality that both of the great emancipators should
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THE BELL, THE lOWER, THE SYNOD, AND THE CANNON have perished at the hand of an assassin ; yet our Lincoln,the president who freed the slaves in the new world, andAlexander, the tsar who gave liberty to the Russian serfs,alike fell victims to the fury of political fanatics. A new memorial to Alexander II has been but recentlycompleted. Modern in its magnificence, it fortunately har-monizes with the medieval splendors that surround it. Itboth dignities and graces the noble brow of the sacred 208 MOSCOW Kremlin Hill. The statue itself is a perfectlikeness of the man who, had he lived, wouldhave given a constitution to the Russian peo-ple. The manner of his violent death con-vinced those who succeeded him in govern-ment that Russia was not ripe for liberty. So it has always been and ever will be.The regicide, the killer of the man in power,can do naught but injure and disgrace thecause he thinks to serve, the noblest causefor which man ever fought — the cause ofhuman liberty. The calm,

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