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Chapter 1

           

           Sosaying,healmostpantedwithagitation,andacoldsweatstooduponhisforehead.Thesewerehisfirstwordssincehehadenteredthehouse;hetriedtolifthiseyes,andlookaround,butdarednot;EvgeniePavlovitchnoticedhisconfusion,andsmiled.

           “I’lljusttellyouonefact,ladiesandgentlemen,”continuedthelatter,withapparentseriousnessandevenexaltationofmanner,butwithasuggestionof“chaff”behindeveryword,asthoughhewerelaughinginhissleeveathisownnonsense“afact,thediscoveryofwhich,Ibelieve,Imayclaimtohavemadebymyselfalone.Atallevents,nootherhaseversaidorwrittenawordaboutit;andinthisfactisexpressedthewholeessenceofRussianliberalismofthesortwhichIamnowconsidering.

           “Inthefirstplace,whatisliberalism,speakinggenerally,butanattack(whethermistakenorreasonable,isquiteanotherquestion)upontheexistingorderofthings?Isthisso?Yes.Verywell.Thenmy‘fact’consistsinthis,thatRussianliberalismisnotanattackupontheexistingorderofthings,butanattackupontheveryessenceofthingsthemselvesindeed,onthethingsthemselves;notanattackontheRussianorderofthings,butonRussiaitself.MyRussianliberalgoessofarastorejectRussia;thatis,hehatesandstrikeshisownmother.Everymisfortuneandmishapofthemother-countryfillshimwithmirth,andevenwithecstasy.Hehatesthenationalcustoms,Russianhistory,andeverything.

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