... is introduced into the most defective constitutions by the general manners of the times. In peace, the progress of knowledge and industry is accelerated by the emulation of so many active rivals: in war, the European forces are exercised by temperate and undeceive contests. If a savage conqueror should issue from the deserts of Tertiary, he must repeatedly vanquish the robust peasants ... ...

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... , Russia's first girls' school, for the daughters of the nobility and bourgeoisie. In modelling the Institute on the latest pedagogical theories she showed a concern for the education of women as active (though not equal) contributors in the process of civilising society. An international essay competition on the question of serfdom was intended to show that the empress held strong abolitionist views ... ...

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