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tions, and only eight [two of them women] had even completed the course of study of the middle-class schools. The remaining fortyone either had not been at school at all, or had not been graduated.
The degree of maturity at which their opinions had arrived was also very low, as might be seen from their publications and from their declarations in the court-room, while their knowledge of the Russian people was limited for the most part to an acquain-