Yeah...there are similar sentiments in Tennyson, around the same time:
"Love your enemy, bless your haters, said the Greatest of the great; Christian love, in Christian churches, look'd the twin of heathen hate. Out of golden alms of blessing, man has coined himself a curse: Rome of Caesar, Rome of Peter--which was crueler? which was worse?"
...And, with Merezhkovsky's poem, you also have to take 19th century Russian history into account, and, well...
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"Love your enemy, bless your haters, said the Greatest of the great;
Christian love, in Christian churches, look'd the twin of heathen hate.
Out of golden alms of blessing, man has coined himself a curse:
Rome of Caesar, Rome of Peter--which was crueler? which was worse?"
...And, with Merezhkovsky's poem, you also have to take 19th century Russian history into account, and, well...