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dealing with the revolutionary crisis of 1905, it was an unpardonable blunder of the so-called "Intelligensia" of the doctrinaire revolutionists of 1905 to ignore the spiritual force of the Church. When drastic religious reforms were originally proposed by the clerical members of the Church in the first Duma, their demands were contemptuously dismissed by a superior "Intelligensia." Those doctrinaires ignored the vital fact that no Revolution has ever been successful unless it assumed a religious form, and that this truth applies to Russia even more completely than to England or America or France. In 1905 the Press of the world unanimously predicted the downfall of the Monarchy and the triumph of the Revolutionists. I confidently predicted that nothing would happen. And nothing did happen. The political leaders, disciples of the super-thinkers Marx, and Haeckel and Nietzsche, leaders whose revolutionary theories had been almost entirely "made in Germany"—that is to say, in the very country which never had the courage to carry through a successful revolution—were neither understood nor followed by the people. The only leader who in that eventful year had a powerful following pre-