1834. Dmitry Mendeleev was born

180 years ago, on February 8, 1834, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, the great Russian chemist, the creator of the periodic system of chemical elements was born.

In addition to science, Mendeleev was interested in public problems and was a noticeable publicist of a conservative direction. He argued: “Nationalism, for me, is so natural that it will never,“ internationalists ”of the desired, will never fade away, but, firstly, to everything, I think, will come to my right time, and now it is not beyond the extremes of nationalism; Secondly, small people are almost necessary to agree forever with large ones, since in the future only large and strong are firmly; Thirdly, the scattered peoples, such as gypsies and Jews, without any earth and statehood, cannot even enter into account; And fourthly, nationalism needs to be most necessary to accept the beginning of tolerance, that is, to renounce all kichnity, in which an obvious abyss of evil, and therefore in these kinds of matters it is most practical to patiently wait for the course of the accomplishment. ”