It will be a century's work to "estimate" Lenin. To The Evening Mail, Manhattan, is given credit for the briefest, and possibly the most clearly characteristic summary of American editorial opinion:
Few men have seen deeper and farther than Lenin did. He had all the attributes of a great man except love and humility, but those lacks made him the cynical organizer of a system in which he ceased to believe. Not love but hate was the impelling motive of his life, and so he destroyed one tyranny, that of the czar, only to set...
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