there can be no question that Russia is doing good service to humanity. Her motives for reorganising Central Asia are, no doubt, selfish and exclusive; but her reorganisation has been none the less complete. She has done her best to keep us out of Turkestan; but she has also done her best to keep brigandage, and misrule, and cruelty out of it likewise. And the work, though laborious and still far from completion, is ever advancing. Slowly but surely, across the waste of years, approaches the great day when barbarism shall be driven from this its last stronghold, and when men of every nation, ceasing to revolve in an aimless round of traditional usage, shall stride forward to the accomplishment of a fixed purpose. When I stood, years ago, on the banks of the Jordan, and watched its dark current rushing headlong into the pulseless crystal of the Dead Sea, I saw an apt type of the two great human families. 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