Note 56 — ADDRESSES

“However adventurous the Russian genius,” wrote Boris de Schloezer in the Nouvelle Revue Française, February, 1922, “it characteristically chooses a firm foundation in concrete fact and living reality: this basis once assured, it launches out into speculation of the most abstract and daring nature, returning in the end, rich with the gathered spoils of thought, to the fact and reality from which it started and in which it is perfected.”