The greatest humanitarian of his century sprang up in a land chiefly characterized in the general judgment of the outside world by the reactionism of its government and the stolid ignorance of its populace.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
Of the alleged reactionism of the Government parties there was widespread complaint.
"The Governments of Europe"
Frederic Austin Ogg