Herzen defined Nihilism as “the most perfect freedom from all settled concepts, from all inherited restraints and impediments which hamper the progress of the Occidental intellect with the historical drag tied to its foot.
Women left their husbands, girls their devoted parents, and threw themselves into the swirl of nihilism with a vigor and self-sacrifice almost incredible.
Russification, assimilation, universalism, andnihilism rent asunder the ties that held them together.
It is not easy to say whether the government was ill-advised in confronting the terrors of nihilism with the terrors of authority.
All this goes to prove that if speculative nihilism is a moral infirmity congenital to the soul of the Russian, active and political nihilism is the fruit of the peculiar situation of the empire.
It dealt with the same ideas as "Fathers and Sons," save that the nihilism described in it was of the active rather than the speculative sort.
The path of nihilism does not lead to brilliant position or destiny: it may lead to Siberia or to the gibbet.
It will be seen therefore that the people were not irrelevant in confounding nihilism with a religions sect.
In speaking of nihilism I have mentioned the most important one of the directive Russian novels, called "What to Do?
With Herzen's novel the tendencies of nihilismwere first revealed; with Tchernichewsky's they became fixed and decisive.
All these years Alexander had battled withnihilism and (p.
A General Assembly held at Leipzig in March, 1845, brought to light the deplorable religious nihilism of the leaders of the party.
This was the hour when Nihilism exercised its fellest terrorism.
Herzen defined Nihilism as "the most perfect freedom from all settled concepts, from all inherited restraints and impediments which hamper the progress of the Occidental intellect with the historical drag tied to its foot.
Fenianism might have been found written on his heart, like Calais on Queen Mary's, and, closely interwoven with it, anarchism and nihilism in all their phases.
Nihilism led to reaction, and the police recovered all its old authority.
A period of reaction has set in: Despotism and Nihilism meet face to face.
This unsuspected stroke of good fortune for the girl happened in this wise: Towards the end of the year 1879, it became very evident that Nihilism was spreading to an alarming extent in the army.
There must be some strong excitement in which every one can take a part and feel a personal interest, and then Nihilism will decline.
Nihilism was not to be rooted out by the removal of any particular set of men.
What wonder thatNihilism should flourish and the service of dynamite be enlisted to accomplish what moral suasion failed to achieve!
Twenty-one persons were arrested in Kief, and almost as many in Kharkov, and still Nihilism was not stamped out.
The whole history of revolutionary Russia is mirrored in our circles; every shade of temperamental Nihilism and political view is harbored there.
What a miserable descent from the peaks of Nihilism that proclaimed defiance of all established institutions, because they were established, hence wrong.
The fate of Uncle Maxim remains a mystery, the question of Nihilism unsolved.
A study of Russian Nihilism in the 'eighties, which may be read and compared with Kropotkin's Memoirs.
If there have been no positive or dogmatic Nihilists, yet both Hume for one purpose, and Fichte for another, have propounded Nihilism as the ultimate issue of all reasoning that does not start with some à priori postulate.
Polar tendencies of Phenomenalism which take the shapes of Idealism and Positivism, resulting in Nihilism or Indifferentism.
With therapeutic nihilismor skepticism of the power of drugs I have no sympathy.
It was the dream of a Tartar; it was true Nihilism pushed to extreme and practical conclusions.
She also might have wished that the whole human race had but one head; not in order that she might cut it off, but that she might make the philosophy of Nihilism flourish there.
One might expect that a philosophy thus prone to use the language of extreme nihilism would slip into a destructive, or at least negative system.
It appears, then, that Nihilism in Russia and the spectre of conspiracy always haunting the brain of Abdul Hamid played their part in assuring the liberties of Bulgaria.
Nihilism lifted its head threateningly at home; and the Russian troops before Constantinople were dying like flies in autumn.
As the Princess Radziwill confesses in her Recollections--that event made Nihilism possible.
Their efforts hastened the absorption of philosophic Nihilismin the creed of Prudhon and Bakunin.
Certain it is that desperation, perhaps brought about by a sense of helplessness in face of an armed nation, was one of the characteristics of the Paris Commune, as it was also of Nihilism in Russia.
At a time when pantheism or nihilism is the avowed creed the ancient gods still exist, weak, indeed, yet infused with a true immortality.
Of sterner stuff was the man who invented a new religion as a solace for sorrow and a refuge from the nihilism in which he believed.
And what other end but Nihilism can there be of your "neutral" obligatory schools and your atheistic laws?
Men begin with scepticism, from scepticism they go on rapidly to Nihilism, and from Nihilism to Social War.
At the time of my appearance in St. Petersburg the forces of nihilism had assumed proportions greater than they had ever attained before or will ever attain to again, thanks to my activities.
The very faults which nihilism seeks to remedy are kept alive by its existence.
Nihilism and the cause it upholds, has sunk into utter insignificance, and has become a mere point in the history of my life, like a punctuating period that is placed at the end of a written sentence.
Without nihilism in Russia, Siberia would be unnecessary.
Emancipation a Disappointment Social Discontent Birth ofNihilism Assassination of Alexander II.
The existence of Nihilism may be explained, though not extenuated.
If anything had been needed to make the name Nihilism forever odious, it was this deed.
He will probably have more difficulty in assenting to the theses of "The Nihilism of Socialism.
Should any reader find himself repelled by "The Nihilism of Socialism," let me beg that he will not put the book aside until he has read the essay on "The Biogenetic Law.
There is an obvious inconsistency between the treatment of Materialism in "Science and Socialism" and its treatment in "The Nihilism of Socialism.
I should be sorry to have any reader interpret the materialism of "The Nihilism of Socialism" into a disposition to deny or depreciate the great and beneficent influence that Christianity has had in the past.
The Nihilism of Socialism has no deterrent terrors for him, for, as Karl Marx said long ago, "he has nothing to lose but his chains, and a whole world to gain.
Some Socialists will deprecate what may seem to them the unwise frankness of the paper on "The Nihilism of Socialism.
But, much as we owe to the home, (I pity the reader who can recall his or her early home life with dry eyes), the Nihilism of Socialism tells us the day of the home is drawing to its close.
The attempt had, apparently, nothing to do with Anarchism or Nihilism or the Social Democracy.
Nay, he had discerned in the course of his confidential intercourse with that monarch that a warp of Nihilism had been interwoven through the curious and complicated mental texture of Alexander himself.
For the same reason Nihilism is impossible among us, for that also is nothing more than an hallucination due to the despair of hunger, and can flourish only on the soil of the orthodox view of the world.
Its despair cannot be universal nor its nihilism complete so long as it remains a coherent method of action, with particular goals and a steady faith that their attainment is possible.
Suffice it here to point out, that even if a moral nihilism could be carried through and all definite interests abandoned, the vanity of life would not be thereby corrected, but merely exposed.
But it was, after all, lack of success which had killed Nihilism rather than the violent measures of the Government.
