Excerpt from The Deeper Causes of the War: From the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 I do not think that Russia desired war, though it also did not shrink from it. The motive with Russia was its strong sense of nationality and its leadership of the Slavonic race. It advised Servia to accept the ultimatum presented to it, and I believe that it would have stopped its preparations if a hand had really been held up to it on the other side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.