This is not a matter of myself individually; the question of the public welfare comes into it.

The whole system of culture, the chief element in the condition of the people, must be completely transformed.

Instead of poverty, general prosperity and content; instead of hostility, harmony and unity of interests.

In short, a bloodless revolution, but a revolution of the greatest magnitude, beginning in the little circle of our district, then the province, then Russia, the whole world.