Revelations of Russia Or the Emperor Nicholas And His Empire in 1844 volume 2
Revelations of Russia Or the Emperor Nicholas And His Empire in 1844 volume 2
Henningsen, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1815-1877
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As introduced by Aracheieff into the Russian empire it threatened to give a tenfold increase to the already overgrown power of its tsars. It in some measure resembled the scheme of the Lacedemonian lawgiver, who aspired to make his Spartans a nation of soldiers ; only that in Russia it would have been ap- plied to fifty millions, instead of to a few thousand in- dividuals. The sj'stem of the military' colonies was based on the following facts and reasoning : — In the Russian empire there were t...hen, as now, immense quantities of most fertile land, together with inhabitants to till it, but from social causes the resources of the country remained VOL. II. I 114 MILITARY STRENGTH comparatively undeveloped. The government had al- ready drawn from it, in men and money, all that it could give in this unfavourable condition. On the principle of division of labour and of the application of joint capital, it was obvious that a smaller number of hands might ensure a greater produce, thus not only leaving a larger number of combatants at the disposal of the state, but furnishing the means of supporting them.
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