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THE CHARACTER OF POLITICAL EXILES
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who promote in every possible way the education and the moral up-lifting of the peasants; who struggle constantly against official indifference and caprice; who insist pertinaciously

VÉRA FIGNER AS A YOUNG GIRL.

upon "due process of law"; who are prominent in all good works; but who regard a complete overthrow of the existing form of government as impracticable at present even if desirable.