“...It is difficult to suspect Herzen of dislike for Europe. After all, this is precisely one of those Russian people who, in the words of Dostoevsky, “have two homelands: our Rus' and Europe.” Maybe he himself didn’t know who he loved more – Russia or Europe. Like his friend Bakunin, he was convinced that the final liberation is not the work of any one people, but of all peoples together, of all humanity, and that a people can be finally liberated only by renouncing their national isolation and entering the circle of universal human life...”