Excerpt from The Contemporary Review, Vol. 63: January-June, 1893
The Tsar’s moral staple consists mainly of negative virtues which leave the ‘imagination cold. There are no white-hot panions, no headstrong vices, no noble enthusiasms which distinguish the horn ruler of men. His attitude is usually quiescent; his passivity frequently Buddhistic; and whenever the spirit bloweth upon him as it listeth, it pufi’eth up quite as often as it moves and inspirits. Truly it is well for many human beings - and the Tsar is one of the multi tude - that, in spite of the contrary assertion of the German mystic, character is something very different from destiny.
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