Editorials.

This article focuses on Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the Russian communist. "The Nation" is still eager for this great Russian laboratory to continue its experimenting, for people are yet of the belief that whether the soviets stay or go much good for all the world will come out of the undertaking. The steady recession of Lenin and his government from the extreme Communist position confirms you in your belief that precisely as the eighteenth-century French Revolution sloughed off its peculiar excesses, gradually progressed beyond its ruthless shedding of blood upon the guillotines that worked night and day, and abandoned its policy of exiling the propertied classes, so the twentieth-century Russian experiment is bound to become with time more pliable, less doctrinaire and extreme, far less violent, and, people trust, far more humane in practice as well as in ideal.