Darwinism Reaffirmed by Latest Evidence
In: Current History, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 96-98
ISSN: 1944-785X
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In: Current History, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 96-98
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: Current History, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 98-103
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: American civilization
In: Foreign affairs, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 695
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: American political science review, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 270-296
ISSN: 1537-5943
In the course of the nineteenth century the breach between the Russian government and the intelligentsia grew steadily wider, until it would scarcely have been credible that the relations between them had once been those of patron and client. This had been in the brighter and more hopeful days of enlightened despotism, under Catherine II, and in some measure also under Alexander I. Now, however, other men were ruling, still despotic but no longer enlightened. The consequence was that the less tractable of the intellectuals became either voluntary or compulsory exiles. Much of nineteenth-century Russian history centers about these exiles, who huddled together in colonies wherever they were tolerated: in Zurich, in Paris, and in London. They constituted the principal bond, both physical and cultural, between Russia and the western world.By tradition and training these exiles possessed a bent for cosmopolitan living; in their mental equipment they were decidedly eclectic. Now more than ever they were exposed to the diversity of intellectual influences in which western Europe was more than commonly rich in this post-revolutionary period. Detached from their own foundations, they yielded themselves the more readily to the new currents of thought. Hegelianism, Darwinism, positivism, socialism—wave after wave of "isms" passed over them. They absorbed something of each and tried to make a blending of all.