those who love Kropotkin on one side, and those who don't on the other,
and you will have separated the heralds of the morning from the spooks
of the night. It is no more necessary to be an anarchist-communist to
have a warm spot in your heart for Peter Kropotkin, than it is necessary
to believe in Adam and Eve to enjoy Milton's _Paradise Lost_.
FOOTNOTES:
[61] Kropotkin is still able to cross London Bridge, but his comrade is
missing. For many years Chaykovsky kept away from Russia. During a whole
generation the man who taught Perovskaya was a wanderer in other lands.
Some months ago he went back--he could control his yearning no longer.
He is now in the Fortress of Peter and Paul. The Father of the
Revolution will sleep among his children.
P. S. As this book goes to press, the happy news comes that Chaykovsky
has been liberated on a heavy bail, but it is not yet known what the
government intends to do with him.
[62] Some types are depicted in Gorky's latest work, "The Spy,"
translated by Thomas Seltzer. Because of its subject-matter this book
acts as an emetic.
[63] remember hearing James F. Morton, A. M.--author of the excellent
essay "The Curse of Race Prejudice"--speak to Elbert Hubbard about
Catherine Breshkovskaya whom he had seen at the Sunrise Club, and in
wishing to illustrate her gentleness and lack of resentment for those
who ill-treated her, he called her "a female Kropotkin."
[64] When George Kennan heard this woman's story, his face became wet
with tears almost for the first time since boyhood. See his admirable
but terrible "Siberia and the Exile System."
[65] See the letter by the eye-witness Nicholas Zotoff (hanged August 7,
1889). It is published in "King Stork and King Log," a two-volume work
by Stepniak.
[66] Leo Deutsch was a prisoner at Kara at the time of this tragedy, and
he describes it in his "Sixteen Years in Siberia."
[67] See "Woman, the Glory of the Russian Revolution" (Altruria, July
1907), by Dr. Sonia Winstan. Note this sentence: "In arrests the police
are always more cruel to women than to men, and I have seen women
dragged by the hair to jail thru the streets of St. Petersburg, while
men in the same group were led along in the ordinary way. In the prisons
innocent young women are often placed with the lowest murderers."
[68] In Robert Crozier Long's "The Black Hundreds," in The Cosmopolitan,
January 1908.
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