Phelps Essays On Russian Novelists

The Japanese war pricked one of the biggest
bubbles in history, and left Russia in a profoundly
humiliating situation. Her navy was practically
destroyed, her armies soundly beaten, her offensive
power temporarily reduced to zero, her treasury
exhausted, her pride laid in the dust. If the great-
ness of a nation consisted in the number and size
of its battleships, in the capacity of its fighting men,
or in its financial prosperity, Russia would be an
object of pity. But in America it is wholesome to
remember that the real greatness of a nation con-
sists in none of these things, but rather in its intel-
lectual splendour, in the number and importance of
the ideas it gives to the world, in its contributions
to literature and art, and to all things that coimt
in humanity's intellectual advance.

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