Charles Roden Buxton

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“The landlords' land was seized in {{w|Ozero}} in the summer of 1917—that is, during the {{w|Alexander Kerensky#Russian Provisional Government of 1917|Kerensky régime}}, and before the Communists came into power. I was told afterwards that by October of that year there was a single great estate left in the {{w|Samara Oblast|Samara "Government."}} But it appears that the formal allocation of the land did not take place until after the {{w|October Revolution|October (i.e., Communist) Revolution}}. With the land, the stock and implements (inventar) were distributed also.”

“National culture may some day give place to cosmopolitan culture, but meantime it is a richer and intenser thing. The poetry of a nation, for instance, gains more from the deep roots of national memory and tradition than it loses from the political boundaries which fence it from the air and sun that might come to it across neighbouring gardens. The whole gains by the fuller development of every one of its parts.”

“... {{w|Faith in Christianity|Christian faith}} is, to many people, not primarily a belief in facts at all. It is in a sense a very much simpler thing; but it is a thing less capable of analysis, because more deeply rooted, more elemental. It is that trust or confidence in Christ which contact with Him (or, if you will, with {{w|Christ#Life and teachings in the New Testament|His teaching}}) inspires.”