Part 15 (1/2)

The ma.s.ses will become so satiated with the endless changes of administration, which we instigated among the Gentiles when we were undermining their governmental inst.i.tutions, that they will tolerate anything from us rather than risk undergoing again such struggle and hards.h.i.+ps. We will especially emphasize the historical mistakes of the Gentile administrations which caused mankind to suffer for many centuries through lack of real understanding in all that concerned its true welfare, pursuing fantastic projects of social welfare and not noticing that these projects made worse instead of better the state of general relations.h.i.+ps which are the basis of human existences.

”The chief strength of our principles and measures will lie in that they are put forward and interpreted by us as a sharp contrast to the old and decayed order of society.

”Our philosophers will discuss all the shortcomings of the Gentile religions, but no one will be allowed to discuss our religion from the true point of view except our own people. We shall have a fundamental knowledge of it and will never dare to disclose its secrets.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Cyrillic

FACSIMILE OF THE SAME PROTOCOL CHANGED BY BUTMI IN 1907.]

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75

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[Transliteration:

75

? 17.

(po rukopisi protokol 16-j).

Kogda my vocarimsja, my budem pri kazhdom udobnom sluchae sravnivat' Nashe blagoe Pravlenie s proshlymi bezalabernymi administracijami... Os.h.i.+bki goevskih carstv budut opisyvat'sja nami v samyh jarkih kraskah: my poseem takoe prezrenie i otvrashhenie k nim, chto narody predpochtut pokoj i mir v krepostnom sostojanii pravam preslovutoj svobody, stol' izmuchivshej ih v techenie vekov, istoshhiv samye istochniki sushhestvovanija, popiraemye prohodimcami, ne vedajushhimi, chto tvorjat.