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Chapter 4

           

           “Youwillreachthatwithnothingtohelpyoubutcredit?Withoutrecoursetoanymoralprinciple,havingforyourfoundationonlyindividualselfishness,andthesatisfactionofmaterialdesires?Universalpeace,andthehappinessofmankindasawhole,beingtheresult!IsitreallysothatImayunderstandyou,sir?”

           “Buttheuniversalnecessityofliving,ofdrinking,ofeatinginshort,thewholescientificconvictionthatthisnecessitycanonlybesatisfiedbyuniversalco-operationandthesolidarityofinterestsis,itseemstome,astrongenoughideatoserveasabasis,sotospeak,anda‘springoflife,’forhumanityinfuturecenturies,”saidGavrilaArdalionovitch,nowthoroughlyroused.

           “Thenecessityofeatinganddrinking,thatistosay,solelytheinstinctofself-preservation...”

           “Isnotthatenough?Theinstinctofself-preservationisthenormallawofhumanity...”

           “Whotoldyouthat?”brokeinEvgeniePavlovitch.

           “Itisalaw,doubtless,butalawneithermorenorlessnormalthanthatofdestruction,evenself-destruction.Isitpossiblethatthewholenormallawofhumanityiscontainedinthissentimentofself-preservation?”

           “Ah!”criedHippolyte,turningtowardsEvgeniePavlovitch,andlookingathimwithaqueersortofcuriosity.

           ThenseeingthatRadomskiwaslaughing,hebegantolaughhimself,nudgedColia,whowassittingbesidehim,withhiselbow,andagainaskedwhattimeitwas.

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