“...Let us imagine that all the millions of people of the poorest class, which constitutes the majority in all states, have abandoned the religious traditions in which the dark crowds of their ancestors lived for centuries; Let us imagine that all the subjects of any power, without exception, speak about “human rights”, about “equality and freedom”, about “dignity”, about the fact that the earth revolves around the sun in 365 days and so many seconds... <... > We would like to know what principles can be opposed to the formidable demands of such a “civilized in today’s” crowd by those guardians who are usually called moderate liberals?..”