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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita583recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
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472 EUSSIA IN EUROPE. science is also shown by tlie fact that serious historical, ethnological, and other scientific works are comparatively more read than light literature. The number of newspapers is still inferior to that of the Western states, and none of them enjoy the enormous circulation of,certain popular papers in England, France, and America ; but the solid reviews containing original articles of real value are eagerly read by thousands of subscribers. And while making comparatively little use of her po'stal and telegraphic systems, Eussia actually publishes more works than either Great Britain or Austria-Hungary.* Except in Eoman Cathclic Warsaw few of these works are devoted to theology. Government and Administration. Russia is the only European state in which the sovereign is absolute master. In the legal formula the " Emperor of all the Russias" is an autocratic ruler, to Fi"-. 2Ô4.—House of the Eomaxovs near Kostkoma.
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whom, according to the divine ordinance itself, all owe fealty, " not through fear alone, but also for conscience' sake." This theory of absolute autocratic power has been gradually developed. As in France the royal authority ended by prevailing over that of the vassal states and the great nobles, so in Muscovy autocracy replaced the old institutions of the communes and " free orders," and assumed a Telegrams. * United Kingdom (1876). 21,820,023 Germany „ 13,456,728 France " „ 11,412,161 Russia ., 4,275,000 Publications :—France (1875), 14,195; Germany (1878), 13,912; Russia (1877), 7,500; England, (1877), 5,095; Austria (1876), 1,902. Per l.roo Per ahabitants. Letters. Head 638 1,116,688,000 or 33-4 2S6 594,994,000 , , 16-6 275 366,506,000 , 10-2 53 86,612,000 , 1-

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