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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. Russia's gift to the world - Image 39. 1915. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 27, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1414.

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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945. (1915). Russia's gift to the world - Image 39. Socialist and Communist Pamphlets. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1414

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Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945, Russia's gift to the world - Image 39, 1915, Socialist and Communist Pamphlets, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed January 27, 2021, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/1430/show/1414.

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Title	Russia's gift to the world
Creator (LCNAF)	Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945
Publisher	Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Creation (TGN)	New York London
Date	1915
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Russia
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	48 pages; 22 cm.
Original Item Location	DK32.7.M3 1915
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304497~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	This item is in the public domain and may be used freely.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 39
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_1315132_038.jpg
Transcript	Russia's Gift to the World 37 III. Intermediate between the arts of life on the one hand and the pure or applied sciences on the other, are those studies which, while they are concerned with knowledge, not with creation, yet differ from " science " in the usual sense of the word inasmuch as they deal not with the laws and facts of nature, but with those of the moral and mental world and the course of human events. This field includes history, philosophy, economics, and other kindred studies. In it the contribution of Russia to the world is large and is rapidly growing. HISTORY Russian work in history has been seriously hampered in the past by the despotic tradition of Russian government. For the result has been that the best historical students have preferred, for the sake of safety, to deal principally with subjects lying outside the sphere of recent political history. The two chief national histories, by Karamzin and Solovev, fall short of the highest standards of scholarly execution, as that is now understood, but the former is memorable for the effect it had both towards enlarging the sphere of Russian literature and towards creating in the nation a consciousness of its own past. The historical work of Solovev, though great, has its value rather in the application of ideas to history than in the extent and accuracy of its research. But in their own history, original work of first-rate quality, displaying both accuracy and mastery of material, has been produced on particular periods, as, for instance, in Bilbasov's Catherine II., of which the merits and importance have been universally recognised outside Russia, and in the acute studies of Platonov on the 16th and early 17th century. Bogdanovich and several I