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STYÓPA. But no one is striking anybody!
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Just as when a man feels no shame at taking toll
from others' labour without doing any work himself, you cannot prove to
him that he ought to be ashamed; and the object of all the Political
Economy you learnt at the University is merely to justify the false
position in which we live.
STYÓPA. On the contrary; science destroys all prejudices.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. However, all this is of no importance to me. What is
important is that in Yefím's[24] place I should have acted as he did,
and I should have been desperate had I been imprisoned. And as I wish to
do to others as I wish them to do to me--I cannot condemn him, but do
what I can to save him.
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24] Yefím was the peasant who had cut down the tree.
PETER SEMYÓNOVICH. But, if one goes on that line, one cannot possess
anything.
Alexándra Ivánovna and Styópa--
Both speak together
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