“On every occasion we will publish articles in which we will compare our beneficent rule with the past. The benefits of peace, though achieved through centuries of turmoil, will stand out in relief in this era of blessings. The shortcomings of the Gentile administrations will be pictured by us in the darkest colors. We will sow such antipathy toward their governments that the masses will prefer peace in a condition of servitude to the rights of the so-called liberty which so tormented them and destroyed the very springs of human existence and which were exploited by a host of adventures, not realizing what they were doing. The masses will become so satiated with the endless changes of administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were undermining their governmental institutions, that they will tolerate anything from us rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and hardships. We will especially emphasize the historical mistakes of the Gentile administrations which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that these projects made worse instead of better the state of general relationships which are the basis of human existences. “The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie in that they are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp contrast to the old and decayed order of society. “Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the Gentile religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion from the true point of view except our own people. We shall have a fundamental knowledge of it and will never dare to disclose its secrets. [Illustration: Cyrillic FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 1907.] [Transcription: 75 № 17. (по рукописи протоколъ 16-й). Когда мы воцаримся, мы будемъ при каждомъ удобномъ случаѣ сравнивать Наше благое Правленіе съ прошлыми безалаберными администраціями... Ошибки гоевскихъ царствъ будутъ описываться нами въ самыхъ яркихъ краскахъ: мы посѣемъ такое презрѣніе и отвращеніе къ нимъ, что народы предпочтутъ покой и миръ въ крѣпостномъ состояніи правамъ пресловутой свободы, столь измучившей ихъ въ теченіе вѣковъ, истощивъ самые источники существованія, попираемые проходимцами, не вѣдающими, что творятъ.