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# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Russian Soul

​THE RUSSIAN SOUL The truth is, too, that there is not in the world a more religious people than the Russian—a people more submissive to what they conceive (not always wisely) to be the will of the Almighty, the governance of the unseen forces. As opposed to the average German intellect, which for the past fifty years has been struggling day and night to materialize the spiritual, the Russian intellect seems to be always trying to spiritualize the material. No one can doubt this who has seen the Russian peasants on their pathetic pilgrimages to the Holy Land, standing (among the lepers, uttering their clamorous lamentations) before the gates of the Garden of Gethsemane, or trooping in dense crowds down the steep steps to the underground Church of the Virgin. The literature of Russia, too, reflects this trait of the Russian soul, and not only in the works of ​Pushkin, Gogol, Tourgeneiff, Tolstoy, Repin, Dostoyevsky, and Glinka, or yet in Kuprine, Gorki, Anoutchin, Merejkowsky, and Baranovsky, but in those simpler and perhaps cruder writings which speak directly to uneducated minds, the same striving after the spiritual is everywhere to be seen. Books like Treitschke's, Nietzsche's, and Bernhardi's would be impossible in Russia, not, heaven knows, because of their "intellectual superiority," which is another name for braggadocio, but because of their moral insensibility, their glorification of the physical forces of the body of man, which the Russian mind sets lower than the unseen powers of his soul.
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Soul of France

​THE SOUL OF FRANCE Then when the men had gone there came that anxious silence in which every ear was strained to catch the first cry from the army. Would it be victory or defeat? In the strength of her new-born spirit France was ready for either fate. The streets of Paris were darkened; the theatres were shut up; the cafes were ordered to close at nine o'clock; the sale of absinthe was prohibited that Frenchmen might have every faculty alert to meet their destiny; and the principal hotels were transformed into hospitals for the wounded that would surely come.
They came. We were allowed to see their coming, and in those early days of the war, before the Red Cross companies had got properly to work, the return of the first of the fallen among the French soldiery made a terrible spectacle. At suburban stations, generally in the middle of the night, long lines of third-class railway carriages, as well as rectangular, box-shaped cattle wagons, such as in conscript countries are used for purposes of mobilization, would draw up out of the darkness.
Instantly hundreds of pale, wasted, generally bearded, and often wounded faces would appear at the windows, crying out for coffee or chocolate. Then the cattle wagons would be unbolted, and the great doors thrown back, disclosing six or ​eight men in each, lying outstretched on straw, with their limbs swathed in blood-stained bandages, and their eyes glazed with pain. They were the brave fellows who, a few weeks before, had gone to Flanders in the pride and prime of their strength. In some cases they had lain like that for two whole days on their long way back from the fighting line, with no one to give them meat or drink, with nothing to see in the darkness of their moving tomb and nothing to hear, except the grinding of the iron wheels beneath them, and the cries of the comrades by their side.
"Mon Dieu! Que de souffrances! Qui l'aurait cru possible? O mon Dieu, aie pitié de moi."
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Part Played by the United States

​THE PART PLAYED BY THE UNITED STATES Perhaps the most tragic of these vistas of the sufferings of great souls in neutral countries came from the United States. Profoundly affecting were nearly all President Wilson's public utterances, even when, as sometimes occurred, our sympathy could not follow them. And certainly one of the most vivid of the flashes as of lightning, whereby we have seen the war in its moral aspect, was that which showed us the United States, at his proclamation, arresting for a whole day, on October 4, 1914, the immense and tumultuous activities of her vast continent in order to intercede with the Almighty to vouchsafe healing peace to His striving children.
It was a great and impressive spectacle. As I think of it I seem to feel the quieting of the headlong thoroughfares of Chicago, the hushing of the thud and drum of the overhead railways in New York, and then the slow ringing of the bells in the square tower of that old Puritan Church in Boston—all calm and peaceful now as a New England village on Sunday morning.
But truth to tell we of the belligerent countries were not deeply moved or comforted by America's prayers. We thought our cause was that of humanity, and the sure way to establish it was ​by protest as well as prayer. We did not ask or desire that America should take up arms by our side. We did not wish to enlarge the area of the conflict that was deluging Europe in blood. Confident in the justice of our cause, we thought we knew that by the help of the Lord of Hosts, and by the strength of His stretched-out arm, the forces of the Allies would be sufficient for themselves. Neither did we wish to make a parade of our wounds to excite America's pity. With all our souls we believed that for every drop of innocent blood that was being shed outside the recognized area of battle the Avenger of blood would yet exact an awful penalty. But when humanity was being openly outraged, and conventions to which America had set her seal were being flagrantly violated, we thought, with Mr. Roosevelt, that it was the duty of the United States, as a Christian country, to step in with the expression of her deep and just indignation.
America was long in doing that. But, thank God, she did it at last, and for the courage and strength of the Notes which President Wilson (speaking with a voice that is no unworthy echo of the great one that spoke at Gettysburg) has lately sent to Germany on the sinking of the Lusitania, and the outrage thereby committed on the laws of justice and humanity, which are immutable, the whole civilized world (outside ​the countries of our enemies) now salutes the United States in respect and reverence.
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Russian Moujik Mobilizing

​THE RUSSIAN MOUJIK MOBILIZING So the flashes as of lightning that have shown us the part Russia has played in the drama of the past 365 days have revealed a people acting under something very like a religious impulse. We have seen the moujiks being mobilized in remote parts of the vast country, and have found it a moving picture. It is probable that the war had been going on for weeks before they heard anything about it. Almost certainly they had no clear idea of where the fighting was, or what it was about, the theatre of the struggle being so far away and their ignorance of the world ​outside their own little communities so profound and impenetrable. We may be sure that when the echo of the great war did at length reach them it was quite undisturbed by any foolish pretence associated with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand (that lie could only be expected to impose on the enlightened peoples of the West) and concerned itself solely with the safety of Russia.
The humblest Russian is proud of Russia; proud that it is so big and powerful among the nations of the world. He will gladly die rather than see it made less, so deep is his devotion to the long-suffering giant whose blood is throbbing in his veins. Therefore, when the call of war came to the moujiks in their far-off homes, we saw them answering it as if it had been the call of their faith. First a service in the village church; then a procession behind the village pope to the village shrine ("Now go away and fight for Russia, my children"); then the setting off for the distant railway station, the mothers and young wives of the soldiers marching for miles by their sides, carrying their rifles and haversacks along the wide roads white with dust. What scenes of human pathos! For a long time the officers are indulgent to irregularities—have they not just left their own dear women behind them?—but at length the word of command rings out, and everybody not connected with ​the army has to go back. Ah, those partings! Still, God is good! And hadn't Masha promised to burn a candle to the Virgin every day while her husband is away? Ivan will come back; yes, of course Ivan will come back, and by that time baby will be born, and then what joy, what lifelong happiness!
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Part Played by the British Navy

​THE PART PLAYED BY THE BRITISH NAVY Perhaps the first of the flashes as of lightning by which we have seen the drama of the past 365 days is that which shows us the part played by the British Navy. What a part it has been! Do we even yet recognize its importance? Have our faithful and loyal Allies a full sense of its tremendous effect on the fortunes of the ​campaign? On Sunday, August 2, two days before the dispatch of Great Britain's ultimatum to Germany, we saw thousands of our naval reserve flying off by special boats and trains to their ships on our east and south coasts. On Monday, August 3, the British Navy had taken possession of the North Sea.
It was a legitimate act of peace, yet never in this world was there a more complete, if bloodless, victory. The great German North Sea fleet, which (according to a calculation) had been constructed at a cost of £300,000,000 sterling, to keep open the seas of the world to German trade; the fleet which had, in our British view, been built with the sole purpose of menacing British shores, was shut up in one day within the narrow limits of its own waters!
In the light of what has happened since it is not too much to say that if the British Fleet had taken up its cue only forty-eight hours later the north coast of France would have been bombarded, every town on our east coast from Aberdeen to Dover would have been destroyed, and Lord Roberts's prophecy of German invasion would have been fulfilled. But, thank God, the watch-dogs of the British Navy were there to prevent that swift surprise. They are there (or elsewhere) still, silently riding the grey waters in all seasons and all weathers, waiting and watching and biding their time, and meanwhile (in, ​spite of the occasional marauding of submarines, the offal of fighting craft) keeping the oceans free to all ships except those of our enemies. And now, when we hear it said, as we sometimes do, that Great Britain holds only thirty-five miles of land on the battle-front in Flanders, let us lift our heads and answer, "Yes, but she holds thirty-five thousand miles of sea."
# The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days/The Part Played by the Neutral Nations

​THE PART PLAYED BY THE NEUTRAL NATIONS
And then the neutral countries—what is the part which they have played in the drama of the past 365 days? I think I may fairly claim to have had better opportunities than most people for studying one aspect of it, its moral aspect, and therefore I trust I may be forgiven if I make a personal reference. Seeing, in the earliest days of the war, that Germany was doing her best to divert the eye of the world from the crime she had committed in Belgium, and being convinced that Britain's hope both now and in the future lay in keeping the world's eye fixed on that outrage, I moved the proprietors of the Daily Telegraph to the publication of "King Albert's Book."
What that great book was it must be quite unnecessary to say, but it may be permitted to the editor to claim that it constituted the first (as it may well be the final) impeachment of the ​Kaiser before the bar of the nations for a crime in Belgium as revolting as that of Frederick the Great in Silesia and a thousandfold more fatal. After the publication of "King Albert's Book," Germany knew that before the tribunal of the civilized world she stood tried and condemned. But though representative men and women in thirteen different countries united within the covers of the historic volume to express their abhorrence of Germany's iniquity, the whole weight of the world's condemnation could not be included.
From many of the neutral nations there came pathetic cries of inability to join in the general protest. Famous men wrote that the neutrality of their countries imposed upon them the duty and the penalty of silence. "My brother is a member of our Government," wrote one illustrious man of letters, "and if I am not to get him into trouble I must hold my tongue." Another, whose German name, if it could be published, would carry weight throughout the world, said: "I know where my sympathy lies, and so do you, but I dare not speak, for I am a German-born subject, and to tell what is in my mind would be treason to my country." This message came from a remote place in Spain, the writer having been compelled to fly from France, because his blood was German, while unable to take refuge in Germany because his heart was French.
# The Early English Organ Builders and their work/Appendix I

APPENDIX.
I.
Extracts from the Fabric Rolls of York Minster relating to Organ Matters.
(a.d. 1399-1536.)
# The Earliest Lives of Dante (Smith 1901)/Life of Dante (Villani)

A PASSAGE
FROM
THE LIFE OF DANTE
BY
FILIPPO VILLANI
(before 1348 — ca. 1404)
THE EMBASSY TO VENICE
It came to pass that the Venetians, confident in their strength and power, unjustly declared war on Guido [the Lord of Ravenna], and gathering together their forces on land and sea, proudly made ready for his overthrow. This affair hastened the death of the poet; for death, in truth, visits even the illustrious. Since Guido was occupied by this great crisis in his affairs, and placed little confidence in his own powers, he deemed that the name and eloquence of Dante would be able to turn aside the impending ruin. He assigned to him, therefore, in the capacity of envoy, the duty of seeking peace.
The poet gladly accepted the charge, and after he had overcome the many obstacles that were laid in his way, arrived, with some solicitude, at Venice. But the Venetians, who were little trained in eloquence, feared the man, lest they should be shaken in their proud purpose by his persuasiveness, wherein the poet, as they had learned, was exceedingly effective. Though Dante begged again and again that he might announce his mission, they refused to give him audience. And when the poet, being denied a hearing, petitioned for carriage back to Ravenna by sea, since he was afflicted with fever, they, laboring under still greater folly, utterly refused his request.
It seems that the Venetians had granted to the admiral of their naval force the full powers of peace and war, and feared that, if they allowed Dante a safe return by sea, he of himself would be able to turn the admiral whither he wished. Surely on this illustrious city the shame of its mad folly will rest for ever, for it is manifest ​that this great republic was laboring under the veriest fickleness, in that she feared lest his persuasiveness should move her from that course whereon she had deliberately decided; and, what is baser still, in that she wished to banish eloquence from her city. With great inconvenience the poet, therefore, though ill with fever, made the journey to Ravenna by land, where, a few days after his arrival, he died, and was honored with a public funeral.
# The Early English Organ Builders and their work

THE EARLY ENGLISH
ORGAN BUILDERS
AND THEIR WORK
From the Fifteenth Century to the period of the Great Rebellion, An unwritten chapter in the History of the Organ. A Lecture delivered before the College of Organists, November 15, 1864.
BY
Edward F. RIMBAULT, Ll.d. Member of the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Musical Examiner in the Royal College of Preceptors, etc.
LONDON: WM. REEVES. 83 CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C.2.
The New Temple Press, Norbury Crescent, London, S.W.16.
* Page i — Dedication
    To Edwin Monk, Organist and Choirmaster of York Minster.
* Page 1 — The Lecture
    The Early English Organ Builders and their Works
* Page 69 — Appendix I
    Extracts from the Fabric Rolls of the York Minster relating to Organ Matters.
* Page 71 — Appendix II
    Extracts from the Libri Computi of Magdalen College, Oxford, relating to Organ Matters.
* Page 75 — Appendix III
    The Agreement between Antony Duddyngton and the Churchwardens of All-Hallows', Barking, for the Organ.
* Page 78 — Appendix IV
    The Charges about the Organs of King's College Chappel, etc., Augusti xiiii. 1606. a Junii 22, 605, ad August 7, 606
* Page 87 — Appendix V
    The proposals of Renatus Harris to the Reverend the President and Fellows of Magdalen College in Oxford, for repairing and making several alterations in their Organ, 17 July, 1685.
* Page 89 — Appendix VI
    Harris's Agreement with the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford to Improve and Enlarge his Grand-Father's Organ.
* Page 93 — Quarrel
    Some Account of the quarrel between Smith and Harris.
* The Organ of Lincoln Cathedral
* The Organ of Lincoln Cathedral.
* AS SHOWN IN HOLLAR'S ENGRAVING.
* From Hopkins's and Rimbault's "History and Construction of the Organ."
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# The Early English Organ Builders and their work/Appendix II

II.
Extracts from the Libri Computi of Magdalen College, Oxford, relating to Organ Matters.
(a.d. 1481-1695.)
[In this year Renatus Harris entered into an agreement with the President and Fellows to keep their organ in tune for 8$^l$ yearly. Entries of those payments occur from year to year, the last being in 1715, the supposed year of Harris's death.]
# The Early English Organ Builders and their work/Appendix III

III.
The Agreement between Antony Duddyngton and the Churchwardens of All-hallows', Barking, for the Organ.
a.d. 1519.
(From the Original Document preserved in the Church Chest.)
"This endenture made the yere of oure lorde god m$^l$ v$^o$ xix. and in the moneth of July xxix day. Witnesseth that Antony Duddyngton, Citezen of London, Organ-Maker, hath made a full bargayn, condycionally, with Maister Will$^m$. Petenson, Doctour in Divinite, Vicar of Alhalowe Barkyng, Rob$^t$. Whytehed and John Churche, Wardeyns of the same Churche, and Maistere of the P'isshe of Alhalowe Barkyng, next y$^e$ Tower of London, to make an instrument, that y$^s$ to say a payer of organs for the foresed churche, of dowble Ce-fa-ut that y$^s$ to say, xxvij. playne keyes, and the pryncipale to conteyn the length of v foote, so folowing w$^t$ Bassys called Diapason to the same, conteyning length of x foot or more: And to be dowble pryncipalls thoroweout the seid instrument, so that the pyppes w$^t$ inforth shall be as fyne metall and stuff as tho utter parts, that is to say of pure Tyn, w$^t$ as fewe stoppes as may be convenient. ​And the seid Antony to have ernest vi$^{li}$ xiii$^s$ iiij$^d$. Also the foresaid Antony askyth v quarters of respytt, that y$^s$ to say, from the fest of Seynt Mighell the Archaungell, next following to the fest of Seynt Mighell the day twelvemonth following. And also undernethe this condicion, that the foresaid Antony shall convey the belowes in the loft abowf in the seid Quere of Alhalowes, w$^t$ a pype to the sond boarde. Also this p'mysed by the said Antony, that yf the foresaid Maister, Doctour, Vicare, Churche Wardeyns, Maisters of the p'isshe, be not content nor lyke not the seid instrument, that then they shall allowe him for convaying of the belows xl$^s$. for his cost of them, and to restore the rest of the Truest agayn to the seid Maisters. And yf the seid Antony decesse and depart his naturall lyf w$^t$in the forseid v quarters, that then hys wyff or hys executours or his assignes shall fully content the foresaid some of iij$^{li}$. xiij$^s$. iiij$^d$. to the seid Vicare, and Churche Wardeyns, and Maisters of the p'isshe w$^t$ out any delay. And yf they be content w$^t$ the seid instrument, to pay to the seid Antony fyfty poundes sterlinge. In Wittnesse whereof the seid p'ties to these endentures chaungeably have set their sealls. Geven the day and yere abovesaid."
Copy of the Receipt.
"M$^d$ y$^t$ I Anthony Duddyngtonne have Reec$^d$ of Harry Goderyk, Churche Wardeyn of Barkyng, the som of xxx$^{li}$ st., in p$^t$ of paym$^t$ of l$^{li}$ st., the wiche I shold have for a payre of organs. In Wytnesse heyrof, I the forsayd Antony have subscrybed my name the xxij day of M'che, A$^o$ xv$^e$ xx.
Be me Antony Duddyngton."
# The Commonweal/Volume 1/Number 1/Lessons in Socialism

LESSONS IN SOCIALISM.
Two Courses of Eight Lessons each, on “Capital,” will be given at South Place Institute, Moorgate Street, under the auspices of the Socialist League. In these an attempt will be made to give an analysis of Karl Marx' Das Kapital.
Syllabus of the First Course.
The Second Course of Eight Lessons will commence on Thursday, April 16. They will deal with the production of absolute and of relative surplus-value. Wages. Accumulation. The abstinence theory. Over-population. Expropriation and exportation. The farmer capitalist. The industrial capitalist. The colonial system.
The lessons will be given by Edward Aveling, Fellow of Univ. Coll., Lond.
On Saturday, Feb. 7, a Public Meeting will be held at South Place INstitute, at 8:30 P.m., to explain the objects of the lessons. William Morris, J. L. Mahon, Edward Aveling, S. Mainwaring, C. Mowbray, Joseph Lane, and others will speak.
Lectures free for members of the Socialist League; non-members, 3s. per course of eight lessons; 6d. one lesson. Apply to Edward Watson, 27, Farringdon (illegible text).
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# The Commonweal/Volume 1/Number 1/Answers to Correspondents

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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# The Commonweal/Volume 1

* Number 1 (February)
* Number 2 (March)
* Number 3 (April)
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# The Commonweal

The Commonweal was a Socialist newspaper first published in February 1885.

## Volumes

* Volume 1 (1885) (transcription project)
* Volume 2 (1886) (start transcription)
* Volume 3 (1887) (start transcription)
* Volume 4 (1888) (start transcription)
* Volume 5 (1889) (start transcription)
* Volume 6 (1890) (start transcription)

## Common and Notable Contributors

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* Edward Bibbins Aveling
* Ernest Belfort Bax
* Friedrich Engels
* Frank Kitz
* Paul Lafargue
* William Morris (as editor in all volumes; as author in certain individual sections)
* Charles Wilfred Mowbray
* George Bernard Shaw
* Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky
* Édouard Vaillant
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