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between Siberia and the United States; the realisation of
these possibilities in the past history of the two countries
forms the sharpest imaginable contrast.
The following passage occurs in one of the resolutions
passed at the tercentenary jubilee of Siberia:—“America
has in one century reached a degree of development of
which we never dared even to dream.... Australia has
likewise during this century progressed with gigantic strides
and can now rejoice in a material and spiritual
development the like of which we in Siberia have perhaps never
even heard.... And Siberia...?”
At the above jubilee the city council of Yeniseisk passed
a resolution and sent it to the government. It is an
interesting document and I think this paragraph of it will
bear quotation:—
“With this year (1883) Siberia completes her 300th year
under Russian rule, a space of time which ought to have
been sufficient for her development up to the point of
standing alone; but on looking back, one’s heart cannot
but become oppressed because there is nothing satisfactory,
nothing solid to be seen. Only a few feeble seeds and
scions struggle here and there, but how pale and stunted
they appear! One sees full well that something is lacking
in order to make development possible.... Is it not time
to awake to real earnestness, to a thorough realisation of
the actual state of things and the needs of the present
day—now that we are at the end of our three centuries
of existence?” And then they go on to formulate these needs
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