and learned monk, assented with fervour and decision. “The purest Ultramontanism” cried Miüsov impatiently, crossing and recrossing his legs. “Oh, well, we have no mountains,” cried Father Iosif, and turning to the elder he continued: “Observe the answer he makes to the following ‘fundamental and essential’ propositions of his opponent, who is, you must note, an ecclesiastic. First, that ‘no social organisation can or ought to arrogate to itself power to dispose of the civic and political rights