ABSTRACT
1844
An extract from an article by Vissarion Belinsky, the Russian Romantic literary critic and philosopher. The article is ostensibly a review of a textbook by S.Smaragdov, A Guide to the Study of Modern History, and first appeared in Otechestvenniye Zapiski (1844). The selection is here taken from V.G.Belinsky, Selected Philosophical Works (Moscow, 1956).
