ABSTRACT
Nevertheless, the intellectual Russian youth does receive his education in secondary school, not from pedagogues, of course, but from his new solidarity with others. This education continues at the university and has its undeniably positive aspects. It gives a youth certain traditions and stable, definite views. It socializes him, forces him to reckon with the opinions and desires of others and to exercise his own will. Comradeship gives the youth, who emerges from his family and official school a nihilist, an exceptional negativist, certain positive intellectual interests. Ordinarily, almost all bold and bright youths with honest and good intentions, but without any particularly outstanding creative talents, inevitably pass through adolescent revolutionary groups. The English “muscled animal” approaches a woman with noble sentiments and gives her physically healthy children. In England the “intelligentsia” is most of the race’s physical bulwark: it produces strong and powerful human specimens.
