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by Goltzef in a moderate, liberal spirit. He says, in
a discontented tone, “Don’t read productions from the
socialist organ! But,” he continues, “what dissatisfies
me still more, is that you have Dostoyevski here.
He talks about love too much in his books. I know,
indeed, that it is the Christian love; but it doesn’t
matter, it is love all the same, and love is good enough
in the beginning, — but look out how it ends!”
Now, if we distinctly conceive what authority such a
curator of universities possesses, especially those who
rule over the universities at the capitals, we shall not
be greatly surprised at the monstrosities in instruction
to which the press now and then dares to call
attention. Recently the Vyestnik Yevropi thus called
attention to the oddity of some lectures on psychology
which this spring seriously occupied the good society in
St. Petersburg. Vladislavlef, a professor of Philosophy,
gave an outline of psychology, which contained the
following analysis of the sentiment of respect: “This
sentiment,” he said, “increases or diminishes in proportion
to the income of its object. A man who has three
thousand rubles a year necessarily has a great respect for a
man who has fifteen thousand. And a man who, for
example, has over seven million rubles a year (in this
he seems to allude to the Tsar) necessarily makes the
impression of a colossal greatness. On the other hand,
poverty engenders indifference or disdain.” He said all
this without irony, and also not even citing many
instances of the fact, but as the expression of a
psychical law.
Where such a management and such instruction are
possible, it must be self-evident that the acquisition of
the higher education is rendered difficult for the young
men. So far as the young women are concerned, the
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