OF

ANGLO-RUSSIAN DUALISM

IN THE EAST:

BEING

A REPLY TO "VIGILANS."

By "PHILALETHES.'

LONDON:

EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE.

1875.

(PRICE SIXPENCE.)

OF

ANGLO-RUSSIAN

IN THE EAST:

DUALISM

BEING A REPLY TO "VIGILANS."

The age in which we live is one which history will assuredly characterise as the most interesting age of modern times. The Old World is going through the process of transformation. The ideas hitherto held regarding the balance of power among the nations are dying out. Two States which, a couple of centuries since, scarcely existed, have been so marvellously developed, that the human mind, surprised and alarmed, almost fancies it sees the earth, after the lapse of two thousand years, once more divided into an Empire of the East and an Empire of the West. The subject is one which engrosses, in an eminent degree, the attention of statesmen and politicians. Thanks, moreover, to the efforts of the imagination, the facts connected with it are viewed through a magnifying glass, while the various telegraphic agencies, offices of publicity, and newspapers, send forth a host of messages, articles, and pamphlets, which, by infusing the element of passion into the argument, prevent it from being calmly and rationally discussed.

In the last-mentioned category is a pamphlet, published in London a short time ago, from the pen of a writer who signs himself "Vigilans." To this pamphlet, entitled "THE DUALISM OF ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN THE EAST, AND ITS CONSEQUENCE UPON THE GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION OF EUROPE," we will now take upon ourselves to reply.