of its the vastness of her territory and
territory, and the great and of her rapidly increasing numbers,
rapidly increasing number _of there is greater cause for fear
its_ (54) _subjects_, (5) _it_ is in the military spirit and the
still more (5) _so_ from the docility of her people.
military spirit and docile
disposition _by which they are_
(54)[41] _distinguished_. The
prevailing (54) _passion_ of the A burning thirst for conquest is
nation is the (54) _love of as prevalent a passion in Russia
conquest_, and this (54) _ardent_ as democratic ambition in the free
(54) _desire_, which (54) _burns states of Western Europe. This
as_ (54) _fiercely_ in them as passion is the unseen spring[2]
democratic ambition does in the which, while it retains the
free states of Western Europe, is Russians in the strictest
the unseen spring[42] which both discipline, unceasingly impels
retains them _submissive_ (54) their united forces against all
_under the standard of their adjoining states.
chief_ and impels their
accumulated forces in ceaseless The national energy, which is as
violence over all the adjoining great as the national territory,
states. The energies of the rarely wastes itself in disputes
people, great as[43] the territory about domestic grievances. For all
they inhabit, are rarely wasted in internal evils, how great soever,
internal disputes. Domestic the Russians hope to find a
grievances, how great soever, are compensation, and more than a
(54) overlooked in the thirst for compensation, in the conquest of
foreign aggrandizement. (15) In the world.
the conquest of the world the
people hope to find a
compensation, and more than a
compensation, (15 _a_) _for all
the evils of their interior
administration_.

FOOTNOTES:

[37] Apparently "it" means, not "progress," but the "Russian empire."

[38] Not "energy," but "a long succession of ages," needs to be
emphasized.

[39] There is nothing in the context that requires the words, "as of
all Oriental states."

[40] If they were really "inexhaustible," the "necessity of searching
in the bowels of the earth" would be "superseded," not for "many," but
for all generations.

[41] The words can be implied, and besides they are expressed in the
following sentence.

[42] The metaphor is questionable; fo